Society and inquisition in colonial Minas: the familiares do Santo Ofício(1711-1808) / Sociedade e inquisição em Minas colonial: os familiares do Santo Ofício (1711-1808)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The purpose of this study is analyzing the relation stabilized between Portuguese Inquisition and the colonial Minassociety (1711 - 1808) through Familiares do Santo Ofício. Those were inquisitional tribunal civilians agents, charged of accusing, confiscating and arresting the accused of heretical practices. In exchange, they achieved a set of privileges and, above all, social prestige. As they could be laymen, those personages have reached a maximum infiltration among the people, representing, thus, a link between Inquisition and Society. The main questions of this study are: who were the Familiares de Minas? What meant being Familiar? Why being one of them?

ASSUNTO(S)

inquisição - minas gerais; século xviii; sociedade inquisition - minas gerais; society; xviith century

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