Dialética do castigo: histórias de um frade no Brasil holandês

This study focuses on the analysis of a narrative written during the dutch invasion to Brazil, the book entitled O Valeroso Lucideno e Triunfo da Liberdade. The work, published in 1648, in Lisbon, by the religious Manoel Calado, has João Fernandes Vieira, a "senhor de engenho" of Pernambuco, as financier and protagonist. The book, in which the central component was guided by providential history, had a strategic purpose. The work can be understood as a political project, guided by the marks of the historiography of the period, whose efforts lay in the discursive theory of "boa razão de Estado"... Mehr ...