Tinta sobre papel: livros e leitura na capitania de Pernambuco entre 1759 e 1808
AUTOR(ES)
Gilda Maria Whitaker Verri
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2005
RESUMO
In the first half of 18th Century, Pernambuco had strong presence of the Church. When Saint Ignacio Order was banished in 1759 the Congregation of the Oratory started to exert influence in the education, philosophy, sciences. The Pombalâs education reform instituted the Table of Regal Censors, to control the publishing production, the book flow and readings in the Kingdom, in the Captainships, also modifying the University of Coimbra. There was an increase of published subjects and of the bookseller market. There are some crucial questions: what was the Portugal politics for the reading in the Colony? Which authors and books were authorized for studying, reading among the residents in Pernambuco Captainship? Which subjects had arrived at the captainship? Had arrived at Pernambuco the Lights that Illuminated Europe? Some hypotheses were considered: it was a presumption that the books aiming and control had characterized the formation process of cultural history in Pernambuco. Books brought contributions to some fields of knowledge, material and symbolic practices even those who were not authorized to promote the access to social purpose readings, with repercussion until the current days. Conclusion: the book presence in the Captainship corresponded to the publishing production in Portugal, with a religious book incidence in the first decades of the second half of the 18th Century and the guiding for sciences, in the beginning of the nineteen
ASSUNTO(S)
brasil (1759 - 1808) histÃria livro historia pernambuco
