Os poderes além da inquisição a sociabilidade dos familiares e comissários do santo ofício nas atividades seculares e administrativas locais. (Alagoas Colonial, 1674-1820)

Abstract

Peripheral characters - but not low importance - the Familiares and the Comissários of the Holy Office exercised important tasks in environments of Portuguese America. They called for nominations to exercise the office in support of the Court and the monarchy, seeking various privileges by using the occupation. At the societal level, helped harden prejudices against "subaltern races", as the Jews, Moors, blacks, American Indians and mulattos, both the ideals of "purity of blood" as the stabilization of slavery and the de-monization of customs and traditions. Guarded (as we would say today) "morals and good customs " of the Roman Catholic religion and Tridentine, against attitudes like “heretical”, “demonic”, “heathen” and “idolaters “ of the lower categories mentioned above. To maintain stable governance of the monarchy, obeyed to maintain the “com-mon good” and “social order of things”, designed to avoid attitudes that could shake the “harmony” that society as a whole. Seen it all, this dissertation hopes to examine an overview of the different attitudes, conflicts, friendships, wills, “mentalities”, social agreements and actions and/or inquisitorial in the spaces of “Colonial Alagoas”, with contributors in maintaining “old Regime” orders, while they were doing and reshaping one “exclusive order”, specific site in Portuguese America. Dealing with the events and prosopography, combined with the notion of structures, mentalities and “long term”. The draft document evaluation, both in its internal speech as the conditions of external productions, it helps to think of the assumptions that the agents of the Holy Office re-produced lusos values and customs, and on the other hand produced "new" - their in-terests - in experiences and their forms of power. Sometimes obedient to the monarchy and to the Court, other not.