Em busca dos privilégios : benesses atribuídas aos homens da Familiatura colonial do Santo Ofício no Pernambuco setecentista, c. 1700 a c. 1750

Abstract

Recently, we stop thinking as peripheral overseas domains of the Portuguese Empire and thus embarked on investigations that increasingly helps in understanding the dynamics of the four corners that were colonized by that empire. Part of those investigations was and is envisioned by the inquisitorial documents. In our case, the study about the family of the Holy Office which acted on the captaincy of Pernambuco in a period from 1700 to 1750, became telling about practices and mobility mechanisms and social recognition within the Ancien Régime logic, logic this that makes us better understand the kingdom's relationship with the Portuguese America. The dissertation that has now presented by central concern prove some results about the actions of members of the colonial Familiatura the Holy Office in Pernambuco. In relation to the specific actions and procedures carried out by agents of the Portuguese inquisitorial Familiatura here in Pernambuco, were a greater or lesser extent, clothed in a move by the pursuit of social recognition. For Max Weber, social recognition in the Old Regime was marked in a structure of "estamental type" based on the honor and privilege, ie, the very essence of European societies the time of the lights. Be familiar of the Holy Office has become synonymous with prestige and "confirmation" public and notorious clean descent. This meant being Clean blood "infectious" of New Christian, Moorish, mulatto or other types rejected socially. Especially to the businessmen of Pernambuco eighteenth century. Pernambuco was one of the captaincies of Portuguese America that most had the agents of the Holy Office Familiatura Portuguese. Thus, our study sought to study the family, especially in the town of Recife, in the context of mobility and social recognition, that is, try to understand to what point in their lives sought to be a relative of the Holy Office; for what reasons and what the place of the inquisitorial Familiatura within Pernambuco? Examples are the close relationship of businessmen with the colonial Familiatura the Holy Office of Pernambuco, or the significant presence of relatives in stations and offices of the social positions of power as the Senate Chamber and the Third Order of Recife.