Power and word: speeches, strife and law of patronate in Mariana (1748-1764)

Author(s)

Patricia Ferreira dos Santos

• 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: 2007-12-06

Examining board members

Carlos de Almeida Prado Bacellar; Iris Kantor; Fernando Torres Londoño

• Advisor: Carlos de Almeida Prado Bacellar

Abstract

After the publication of the Council of Trento, made between 1545 and 1563, the Catholic Church made an effort to demonstrate, in the pastoral practices, the council answers to the heretical and protestant theories. Paradoxically, in the Portugal domains, the endorsement of the catholic and tridentino worship, which guided the evangelization work controlled by the Kingdom of Portugal, was very affected by the political atmosphere of that time and by the effects of the Royal Patronate. These contradictions are analyzed by studying the pastoral letters emitted by Bishop Dom Frei Manoel da Cruz, as well as the administrative correspondence of royal authorities. They show that in the 1700\'s Minas Gerais, contentions and inflamed discourses marked the pastoral action with the conflict sign. (AU)