An Archbishop in defense of episcopal power: the relationship between D. Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires and the Portuguese Holy Office (1559-1582)

• Grant number: 14/26090-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: March 10, 2015
• End date: November 09, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Laura de Mello e Souza
• Grantee: Juliana Torres Rodrigues Pereira
• Supervisor: Giuseppe Marcocci
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Università degli Studi della Tuscia (UNITUS), Italy
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/11391-0 - An Archbishop in defense of Episcopal power: the relationship between D. Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires and the Portuguese Holy Office (1559-1582), BP.DR

Abstract

With the establishment of the Holy Office in Portugal, the episcopal power to judge heresy was threatened, since the Inquisition tried to overcome the ancient episcopal power to do so. Friar Bartolomeu dos Mártires, Archbishop of Braga from 1559 to 1582, was an example of this jurisdictional conflict, and developed in his territory an alternative way regarding the uniformization of the faith. The dominican friar defended the fraternal correction, precept based on the Book of Matthew and Saint Thomas Aquinas comments about it, as an attempt to bring the heretic back to the community used by those who wanted to restrict the inquisitorial power. With the elaboration of a new model for episcopal action after the Council of Trent, he defended in his writings alternative methods and applied them in his pastoral activity as a way to reinforce his authority. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

JULIANA TORRES RODRIGUES PEREIRA. PATRIOTISMO DE FREI BARTOLOMEU DOS MÁRTIRES? O ARCEBISPO DE BRAGA NA CRISE SUCESSÓRIA PORTUGUESA DE 1580, ENTRE HISTÓRIA E MEMÓRIA. Revista de História, n. 178, 2019-03-28. (14/26090-9, 13/11391-0)

RODRIGUES PEREIRA, JULIANA TORRES. Sanctity in the Order of the Preachers: Friar Bartolomeu dos Martires and the tridentine model for episcopal authority (XVIth-XVIIIth centuries). HORIZONTE-REVISTA DE ESTUDOS DE TEOLOGIA E CIENCIAS DA RELIGIAO, v. 15, n. 48, p. 1394-1422, OCT-DEC 2017. (14/26090-9, 13/11391-0)