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| Author(s): |
Marina Garcia de Oliveira
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: | 2013-10-17 |
| Examining board members: |
Monica Duarte Dantas;
Maria Odila Leite da Silva Dias;
Lucia Maria Bastos Pereira das Neves
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| Advisor: | Monica Duarte Dantas |
| Abstract | |
This thesis intends to analyze the political meaning of the concession of nobility titles in Brazil, from 1808 to 1840, comprising, thus, both the period during which Brazil was part of the Portuguese Empire as well as the First Reign and the Regency Period. Special emphasis is given to the political strategy that informed the concession of titles by d. João and d. Pedro I, including the criteria employed by each monarch, the characteristics of the titles conceded, as well as the people who were ennobled in each of the reigns. Thereby, the different criteria, which guided the concessions made by father and son, are carefully dealt with, responding, on one hand, to distinct expectations by those bestowed with a title and, on the other hand, to different political situations which demanded the formation of alliances in order to support the monarch in very specific moments. Ultimately, if, in fact, there was a nobility throughout the whole Brazilian Empire, its endurance, as well as the continuity or discontinuity of other customary practices and institutions directly (or indirectly) related to the nobility (some of which were clearly heritages of the Ancien Regime) were fiercely questioned and discussed during the Regency Period. Therefore, following the reforms made after the abdication, upon the rise of the second monarch, the titles kept being distributed, though, hereafter, according explicitly to the spirit of the Constitution. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/02489-9 - The Power of Distinctions or the Distinction of Refusals: the Meaning of Resigning or Refusing Nobility Titles in the Brazilian Empire (1822-1889) |
| Grantee: | Marina Garcia de Oliveira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |