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Este estudo sobre a cultura livresca portuguesa da Idade Média centrou-se na análise de bibliotecas institucionais — pertencentes a diferentes observâncias religiosas e ramos eclesiásticos — e de bibliotecas particulares, detidas pela elite intelectual do clero português. O amplo conjunto de obras recenseado evidencia, desde logo, a diversidade de saberes, autores e textos disponíveis aos letrados do período, demonstrando que, apesar de algumas lacunas, o conhecimento acessível em Portugal não se encontrava significativamente aquém do existente noutras regiões tradicionalmente consideradas centrais na produção e difusão do saber literário e científico. Essa constatação sublinha a existência de circuitos ativos de transmissão e circulação do conhecimento, que ligavam o reino português aos principais polos do saber europeu, atravessando filiações religiosas e redes universitárias. Por esses circuitos, mais ou menos amplos, circulavam homens e, com eles, livros e conhecimentos — a esse vigoroso movimento das ideias se convencionou chamar, universalmente, saber.
This study on Portuguese book culture in the Middle Ages focuses on the analysis of institutional libraries—belonging to various religious orders and ecclesiastical branches—as well as private libraries held by the intellectual elite of the Portuguese clergy. The extensive body of works surveyed reveals, from the outset, the wide-ranging diversity of knowledge, authors, and texts available to the literate population of the time. It demonstrates that, despite certain gaps, the knowledge accessible in Portugal was not significantly inferior to that available in other regions traditionally regarded as central to the production and dissemination of literary and scientific knowledge. This observation underscores the existence of active circuits for the transmission and circulation of knowledge, linking the Portuguese kingdom to major centers of European learning and traversing religious affiliations and university networks. Through these more or less expansive channels flowed people—and with them, books and ideas. It is this vigorous movement of thought that has come to be universally recognized as learning.
This study on Portuguese book culture in the Middle Ages focuses on the analysis of institutional libraries—belonging to various religious orders and ecclesiastical branches—as well as private libraries held by the intellectual elite of the Portuguese clergy. The extensive body of works surveyed reveals, from the outset, the wide-ranging diversity of knowledge, authors, and texts available to the literate population of the time. It demonstrates that, despite certain gaps, the knowledge accessible in Portugal was not significantly inferior to that available in other regions traditionally regarded as central to the production and dissemination of literary and scientific knowledge. This observation underscores the existence of active circuits for the transmission and circulation of knowledge, linking the Portuguese kingdom to major centers of European learning and traversing religious affiliations and university networks. Through these more or less expansive channels flowed people—and with them, books and ideas. It is this vigorous movement of thought that has come to be universally recognized as learning.
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História medieval Cultura escrita História da cultura
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Norte, Armando. Livros do Saber: Textos Medievais Portugueses. 1.ª edição. Lisboa: Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa, 2024.
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Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa