Descripción del proyecto
Recuperación de un corpus significativo de oraciones supersticiosas ampliamente utilizadas en los primeros tiempos de la Europa moderna
El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos FORPRAL se centra en el análisis de oraciones vernáculas prohibidas en España, Portugal e Italia entre los siglos XVI y XVIII. Estas oraciones se utilizaban como protección contra la adversidad o la enfermedad, y eran efectivas mientras se leían, transportaban o llevaban alrededor del cuello en forma de talismán. Debido a su diversidad de usos, eran utilizadas de manera generalizada, aunque no exclusiva, por personas sin formación, lo que implica consideraciones en la categoría de texto-objeto. FORPRAL estudiará este patrimonio de la devoción paneuropea recuperando testimonios conservados o indirectos, y realizará un análisis riguroso de las políticas de censura dirigidas a regular formas simples de religiosidad. El proyecto culminará con la recopilación de la Forbidden Prayers Digital Library (biblioteca digital de oraciones prohibidas), un repositorio digital de acceso libre.
Objetivo
Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, the Indexes of prohibited books alone included more than seventy prayers in the vernacular, all deeply rooted in the daily practice of everyday piety and widely disseminated in pamphlets and books of hours. These prayers were mainly used to ask for favours: curing sickness, seeking protection from sudden death or controlling the will of a lover and were effective whether they were read out, worn round the neck like reliquaries or amulets, in contact with the diseased part of the body or used with herbs or other elements. For this reason, they were widely disseminated among the uneducated and represent a hybrid category of text-object. Taking into account the nature of the prayers as a whole, the Indexes tried to eradicate objects, practices and forms of piety looked upon as vain or superstitious. The effectiveness of these prohibitions in the countries of the so-called Counter-Reformation was such that many texts and pamphlets were, or were thought to have been, lost for ever. This project proposes to fill the bibliographical gap in this corpus neglected by the studies on early modern censorship, to consider extending the prohibitory categories of the text to include the devotional object, to restore this pan-European heritage of piety by recovering preserved or indirect testimonies of forbidden prayers, and to perform a rigorous analysis of the censorship policies aimed at regulating simple forms of religiosity. The use of a corpus unexplored to this day and the approach to the study of prayers in their historical, symbolic and material dimensions are some of the novelties of this proposal. The action will culminate with the compilation of a digital repository, the Forbidden Prayers Digital Library: a catalogue raisonné and a space of open access to the text and object that will contribute to the recovery of a part of the European religious culture erased by the effects of Inquisitorial censorship.
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