“Willing to put my soul on the path to salvation”: Catholic models of wills in the 18th century
Abstract
In this text we transcribe and comment on three models of wills available in three manuals of devotion/preparation for death, published in Portugal, between the 17th and 18th centuries that had wide circulation and social scope. Our first goal is to demonstrate the similarity and recurrence of textual structure suggested by the three manuals for writing the testament, es pecially considering the eschatology. Our second aim is to identify possible new ways of research that take into consideration these standards documentary disclosed in Christian literature and the appropriation of these instructions by Luso-Brazilian testers.
Key words: wills, Catholic manuals, testamentary formula.
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