The Catholic Church was characterised by an enormous capacity to adapt to different ways of transmitting the religious message of Christianity. On many occasions, it had to resort to resources that were attractive to the faithful because of the difficulty of insisting on books as the source of transmission of the faith. For example, in the Middle Ages, given the very low literacy rate, the religious message was transmitted through figurative art, converting the biblical story into a sequence of images representing the content of the text. In this case, theatrical performances were used as a way of conveying certain religious messages to an audience located in the rural hinterland and, like almost the entire social spectrum of the time, needed to adapt the medium in order to get the message across. It is not surprising that Baroque art was used in this context, given the power transmitted by the image in this artistic typology, which is as ornate as it is expressive.

Collection: Texts

Chronology: XVII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/28505/1/RHM_21.pdf

Resource type: Historical source

Source: PASCUAL, Miguel Ángel: El missionero instruido y en el de los demásoperarios de la iglesia. Imprenta de Juan García Infançón. Madrid,1698, p. 249.

Language: Spanish

Date: 1698

Owner: Djebril Bouzidi (Modernalia)

Identifier: PASCUAL, Miguel Ángel: El missionero instruido y en el de los demásoperarios de la iglesia. Imprenta de Juan García Infançón. Madrid,1698, p. 249.

Abstract: Fragment of text written by Miguel Ángel Pascual in which he explains the receptive nature of the religious message to be transmitted during theatrical performances

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