Os modelos educativos de cristãos ideais na Trilogia das Barcas, de Gil Vicente

Abstract

The objective of this work is to demonstrate that the plays written by the playwright Gil Vicente can be used as a teaching instrument to study Medieval History. Through his works, the author indicated educational references to Christians at the time. Although he lived in the period of the so-called Modern Age, Gil Vicente has his eyes turned to the medieval period and intended to re-establish medieval values that were, in his view, distorted. The author has a reformist proposal for society and, in this sense, presents in his pieces the ideal models that should be followed by the Portuguese in the 16th century. We situate the importance that these works had in the social environment, the importance of the author, who has become known until today, and we seek to identify how this society was during the production of the works. The plays analyzed as a teaching instrument are works considered to be of devotion, elaborated by the playwright in a short period and considered by many scholars as the trilogy of boats. They are: Auto da Barca do Inferno (1517); Auto da Barca do Purgatório (1518) and Auto da Barca da Glória (1519). These records have very striking characteristics, aimed at the religious, directly containing criticism of vices and constituting social satire.