Paulo Roberto Soares de Deus

Medieval Paradises – Tipology of the Places of Reward in the Final Middle Ages

Paraísos Medievais – esboço para uma tipologia dos lugares de recompensa dos justos no final da Idade Média

Published in Mirabilia 4

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The aim of this article is to consider a set of minimum types to the places assigned for the word Paradise at the end of the Middle Ages. It is not intended to be exhausting nor definitive, after all, the Paradise was a symbol and, as such, preserved great ambiguity in its possible meanings. Paradise's contours could not be so clear since it should to allow the projections of diverse desires and anxieties, deriving of the different cultural strata of that age. However, a tripartite structure, which comes along with the time flow, can be followed.