Laud and distinction in Colonial Brazil (XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries)

• Grant number: 17/01498-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2017
• End date: March 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Jean Marcel Carvalho França
• Grantee: Clara Braz dos Santos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Franca , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/14786-6 - Writings on new worlds: a history of the construction of moral values in Portuguese, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/25162-4 - The nobility devotions on the edifying writings of the colonial Brazil (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), BE.EP.DR

Abstract

In Brazil of the seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries, clergymen and moralists produced a series of encomiastic writings - eulogies, panegyrics, sermons, prayers and sonnets - in praise of men and women who were considered great, such as kings, queens, princesses, bishops, archbishops, governors, viceroys and their respective ladies. Being proclaimed during ceremonies and public parties which celebrated specific moments of their lives - births, birthdays, weddings and deaths - the encomia should extol members of the monarchy, the colonial and metropolitan nobility and diffuse conduct models for the nobles that lived in Brazil. Another set of texts, the books of devotion and penitential sermons produced by the same scholars, contributed to the diffusion of moral values among the colonial nobility that were worthy of their estate, and helped ground the encomia. Throughout these two centuries, settlers who used to be plebeians had their feats in war, entrance or merchandise acknowledged by the Portuguese monarchs. Prized with the ascension to the second state, these distinguished settlers started to inhabit the colony frequently, making it imperative that the scholars of then moralized their costumes. From the examples of illustrious men and women, this research intends to investigate, overall, what qualities and virtuous feats were extolled in the encomia, with the objective of understanding the value frameworks that would direct the actions of the colony nobles. (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)

CLARA BRAZ DOS SANTOS; MILENA DA SILVEIRA PEREIRA. A cochonilha no mundo luso-brasileiro: o manuscrito setecentista editado por Manuel Joaquim Henriques de Paiva. História, Ciências, Saúde : Manguinhos, v. 27, n. 1, p. 275-303, 2020-03-23. (17/01498-3, 13/14786-6)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SANTOS, Clara Braz dos. Praise and distinction in colonial Brazil: the virtuous deeds of the nobility in the 17 th and 18 th centuries. 2021. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais. Franca Franca.