Transgressão e cotidiano : a vida dos clérigos do hábito de São Pedro nas freguesias do açúcar em Pernambuco na segunda metade do século XVIII (1750 – 1800)

Abstract

The current study aims to historicize the daily behavior of the secular clergy in the freguesias do açúcar in Pernambuco in the second half of the seventeenth century, we seek, therefore, to understand how the transgressions committed by members of this group were treated, back then, by society, Church and State. We will analyze how the secular clergy was inserted in the Portuguese society of America and how it interacted with her, being necessary for this an approach of the socioeconomic characteristics of the freguesias do açúcar for us studied. We also will seek to understand how was given the clergy regulation within the legislation of Brazil and Portuguese Empire, within this context we will use the Constituições Primeiras do Arcebispado da Bahia, the Ordenações Filipinas and the Regimentos do Santo Ofício da Inquisição dos reinos de Portugal de 1640 e 1774, codes that governed the society of that time in the civil and religious aspects. From these standards we will seek to analyze its application in everyday life of the freguesias do açúcar in the period between 1750 and 1800, trying to answer the following questions: what were the transgressions practiced by the members of the secular clergy? How the secular and ecclesiastical justice acted against them? What is the opinion of the population about these acts? We can notice, thus, that many were the clergymen that constituted family or offended the sacraments of the church being suspects. We also observed that both the secular and ecclesiastical justice acted against clergymen in Pernambuco, having the same conflict between these two forums, and that the population tended to tolerate the transgressions of the clergy, provided that they did not exceed certain social limits.