Memories of Casa Pia das Convertidas of Lisbon. Institution, Houses and Agents (16th-20th Centuries)

Abstract

The meeting of historical documentary sources, some of them unpublished, on the “Casa Pia das Convertidas” in Lisbon, guided us in a synthesis about an institution that, in its genesis, was proposed to withdraw from society and regenerate women in situations of prostitution and family and marital exclusion, during a period that covers the entire Modern Age and continued until the beginning of the twentieth century.
The whole narrative is permeated by themes such as the foundation, the founders and their motivations, social impact, daily life and the desired “remedy of life”, expressing a work that although pre-existent to the realization of the Council of Trent, fully interprets the reformista spirit that came out.