Um só corpo, uma só carne : casamento, cotidiano e mestiçagem no Recife colonial 1790 - 1800

Abstract

This research aims to record in History how to matrimonial sacrament was present in society of Recife at the end of the Eighteenth century, seeking to understand its association with the daily practices. At the same time, we will examine how people of the parish was socially inserted in the space of cleric, accepting standards of the Church and adapting them according to their most immediate necessities. Within this context fall under the Offences Philippines and the Constitutions of the First Archbishopric of Bahia, the codes that govern civil and religious spheres of the colonial period. From these standards, we see its application in daily life of Recife between the years 1790 to 1800. Something that provides us to understand issues such as: the ages of the betrotheds, the customs about the schedule, days and months of the year in which the celebrations happened. Furthermore, the marriage records answer questions about the social insert that the marriage act could give men and women of Seven-hundredth. We identified the stay betrotheds within their origin group, confirming information already found in other locations, which, at least in the union legitimized by the church, few ones were as mixed couples, there being an obedience to the "principle of equality", advised by current manuals of the time of marriage and the society customs. Finally, marriage documentation becomes essential to understand how the population was distributed in the parish of St. Anthony of Recife. This process of social construction is perceived when we associate the marriages to the population survey information, it allows us to find a miscegenated society, which lived in colonial Recife, and that marriage was an area, a point where people could achieve integration into society, from making family and solidarity bonds. By pulling the wires that interlaced everyday life and the stories of ordinary people who lived in a Catholic society, and we realize that they found in marriage a place that offered benefits that only married people enjoyed. In discovering a reality that we can not observe, our research fills gaps in the History of Recife in the Eighteenth century, contributing in a relevant way for studies about family and social relations.This research aims to record in History how to matrimonial sacrament was present in society of Recife at the end of the Eighteenth century, seeking to understand its association with the daily practices. At the same time, we will examine how people of the parish was socially inserted in the space of cleric, accepting standards of the Church and adapting them according to their most immediate necessities. Within this context fall under the Offences Philippines and the Constitutions of the First Archbishopric of Bahia, the codes that govern civil and religious spheres of the colonial period. From these standards, we see its application in daily life of Recife between the years 1790 to 1800. Something that provides us to understand issues such as: the ages of the betrotheds, the customs about the schedule, days and months of the year in which the celebrations happened. Furthermore, the marriage records answer questions about the social insert that the marriage act could give men and women of Seven-hundredth. We identified the stay betrotheds within their origin group, confirming information already found in other locations, which, at least in the union legitimized by the church, few ones were as mixed couples, there being an obedience to the "principle of equality", advised by current manuals of the time of marriage and the society customs. Finally, marriage documentation becomes essential to understand how the population was distributed in the parish of St. Anthony of Recife. This process of social construction is perceived when we associate the marriages to the population survey information, it allows us to find a miscegenated society, which lived in colonial Recife, and that marriage was an area, a point where people could achieve integration into society, from making family and solidarity bonds. By pulling the wires that interlaced everyday life and the stories of ordinary people who lived in a Catholic society, and we realize that they found in marriage a place that offered benefits that only married people enjoyed. In discovering a reality that we can not observe, our research fills gaps in the History of Recife in the Eighteenth century, contributing in a relevant way for studies about family and social relations.