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| Author(s): |
Aldair Carlos Rodrigues
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2007-07-05 |
| Examining board members: |
Laura de Mello e Souza;
Bruno Guilherme Feitler;
Luiz Carlos Villalta
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| Advisor: | Laura de Mello e Souza |
| Abstract | |
The purpose of this study is analyzing the relation stabilized between Portuguese Inquisition and the colonial Minas\' society (1711 - 1808) through Familiares do Santo Ofício. Those were inquisitional tribunal civilians agents, charged of accusing, confiscating and arresting the accused of heretical practices. In exchange, they achieved a set of privileges and, above all, social prestige. As they could be laymen, those personages have reached a maximum infiltration among the people, representing, thus, a link between Inquisition and Society. The main questions of this study are: who were the Familiares de Minas? What meant being Familiar? Why being one of them? (AU) | |