Navegar y rezar. Devoción y piedad de las gentes de mar barcelonesas (siglos XIV y XV)

Abstract

The seamen of the XIV and XV centuries make a close, original group. Sailors, as a group, had a view of the world according to a large number of common elements, and each one knew the rules that govern their colleagues.
The study of the religious observance of these people let us know that the most typical elements have nothing to do with pity. Within the limits of this field they constitute a group which is pervious not only to the great fashions but to the peculiarities and costumes of their native geographical area.
The religious observances and methods of a specific geographical area are almost always over the cults connected to seafering though we have to take into account that there is a common Mediterranean setting where the religious practices and cults swarm about.