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| Author(s): |
Monique Marques Nogueira Lima
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Franca. 2021-06-03. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais. Franca |
| Defense date: | 2021-05-04 |
| Advisor: | Ricardo Alexandre Ferreira |
| Abstract | |
The Holy Office of the Inquisition of Portugal, as a Church Court, judged and sentenced, between the 16th and 19th centuries, accused of crimes against the faith and against Catholic morality. Records of this ritual were left in long and detailed processes instituted for the investigation of complaints of heresy, and among the different reports, it was not uncommon the presence of accused Africans and descendants at the section of the Inquisitors. With attention to these aspects and considering the set of specialized studies, the present thesis aims to understand how the Portuguese Inquisition mediated and became aware of the dynamics of slavery in the Portuguese kingdom and colony of America, limiting the ancestral religious practices of slaves and supervising their daily activities in dealing with the owners and other people around them. To do so, based mainly on the analysis of the inquisitorial records available in the National Archives of Torre do Tombo (ANTT), but also of the Inquisition's regulations and, also, of other court documents (Cadernos do Nefando, Cadernos do Promotor) and legal works of the time, it is proposed to map the types of heresies attributed to Africans and their descendants and, primarily, to observe how the inquisitorial action interfered in the contact between slaves and their masters. With special attention to the cases that referred to the so-called magical-religious practices and those classified as moral deviations (in particular, sodomy), the objective is to understand how, in the space that unites the Portuguese colony of America to the space of jurisdiction of the court Lisbon in the kingdom, between the 17th and 18th centuries, the Inquisition crossed the world of captivity. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/04244-2 - Between the whip and the bonfire: slavery and Portuguese inquisition in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries |
| Grantee: | Monique Marques Nogueira Lima |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |