Nas origens dos Jerónimos na Península Ibérica : do franciscanismo à Ordem de S. Jerónimo : o itinerário de Fr. Vasco de Portugal

Abstract

At the origin (ca. 1350-73) of the Order of St. Jerome are certain Spanish and Portuguese hermits who returned from a «spiritual» milieu in Italy, generally under the influence of some prophecies. This article will attempt to gather together the data and relations which surround this itinerary, thereby clarifying and pointing out possible signs of its geographical trajectory (which was also a trajectory of spirituality). The Portuguese Vasco Martins lived for many years in this Italian milieu: he was also one of the most interesting personalities of the best known of those groups of hermits. It is through his personality that we may observe those itineraries within the framewerk of the spiritual life in the Iberian Península during the second half of the 14th and at the beginning of the 15th Century.