https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/1279 2026-08-26T20:56:36Z https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/7171 Título: A inquisição portuguesa no Rio de Janeiro: o processo por judaísmo de Isabel da Silva (1710-1716) Autor: NASCIMENTO, Joabe da Silva Primeiro orientador: SANTIROCCHI, Ítalo Domingos Abstract: This dissertation examines the inquisitorial process brought against Isabel da Silva, a New Christian woman from Rio de Janeiro accused of Judaism between 1710 and 1716, using it as a key to understanding practices of repression, surveillance, and disciplining carried out by the Inquisição Portuguesa in colonial Brazil. Anchored in the frameworks of Global and Connected History, the investigation demonstrates how Isabel’s trajectory reveals the articulation between gender, ethno-religious lineage, Atlantic circulations of knowledge, and colonial domination. Based on critical analysis of the trial records preserved at the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, the study mobilizes contributions from microhistory, intersectionality, and women’s social history to show how her position as a woman, a New Christian, and a property owner intensified inquisitorial suspicion while allowing only limited margins of agency and negotiation. The research highlights the centrality of domestic marranism and private ritual practices as forms of transmitting religious memory and resistance, revealing the household both as a site of vigilance and as a space of preservation. It also examines the legal and ritual procedures of the Santo Ofício, emphasizing the institutional production of guilt, the confessional performativity imposed on the accused, and the exemplary character of the penalties, particularly property confiscation and the 1713 auto-da-fé. By reconstructing the trajectory of Isabel da Silva, the dissertation broadens the understanding of women’s experiences under the inquisitorial regime and their insertion within the wider dynamics of the Portuguese Atlantic world. Instituição: Universidade Federal do Maranhão Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2026-04-06T00:00:00Z https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/7155 Título: O "nefando" na fronteira: Francisco Coelho e a produção da moralidade sexual em São Luís do Maranhão (1672-1682) Autor: BEZERRA, Paulo Henrique Silva Primeiro orientador: BACCEGA, Marcus Vinicius de Abreu Abstract: This dissertation investigates the production of sexual morality in São Luís do Maranhão between 1672 and 1682 through the trajectory of Francisco Coelho, who was accused of sodomy and prosecuted by the Portuguese Inquisition. Situated within the field of Atlantic History and Connections: Cultures and Powers, the study examines how behaviors considered deviant were identified, classified, and transformed into objects of social surveillance within a colonial context shaped by the frontier condition of Portuguese Amazonia. Methodologically grounded in Microhistory and Connected History, while also engaging with the History of Sexuality, the research employs a reduced scale of observation to analyze Francisco Coelho’s individual experience and relate it to the Atlantic circulation of moral norms, practices, and discourses linking São Luís and Lisbon within the Portuguese Empire. The primary documentary corpus consists of Inquisitorial Trial no. 1717, preserved at the Portuguese National Archive of Torre do Tombo, complemented by legal, ecclesiastical, and administrative sources. The analysis demonstrates that the accusation of sodomy did not emerge from a single event or from the exclusive action of inquisitorial institutions. Its consolidation resulted from the circulation of rumors, memories, testimonies, and narratives shared by different social groups, producing a form of public reputation capable of transforming suspicions into socially recognized forms of moral classification. Within this context, categories such as “nefandous”, “sodomite”, and tibiro functioned as instruments of moral and political classification, turning attributed behaviors into recognizable and socially sanctioned identities. The study shows that the intervention of the Holy Office constituted only one stage in a process that had already developed within the everyday dynamics of colonial society. The dissertation further demonstrates that the production of sexual morality was deeply connected to disputes involving honor, reputation, authority, and local power. It also highlights the agency of the accused himself, who mobilized documents, witnesses, and legal strategies in defense of his social position. Although he was acquitted by the Inquisition, the closure of the proceedings did not eliminate the ambiguities and uncertainties that permeate the documentary record, nor the social mechanisms of suspicion that sustained the investigation. The study concludes that the Amazonian frontier actively participated in the construction and reconfiguration of the moral languages of the Portuguese world, functioning as a space of circulation, translation, and negotiation of values. Through a microhistorical approach, Francisco Coelho’s trajectory illuminates the mechanisms through which sexuality, public reputation, power, and social control converged in the making of colonial order. Instituição: Universidade Federal do Maranhão Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2026-07-31T00:00:00Z https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/7115 Título: As interfaces de uma história oficial: missionários pentecostais e o contexto socioeconômico em Belém do Pará (1893-1910) Autor: PEREIRA, Suellem de Jesus Primeiro orientador: SANTOS, Lyndon de Araújo Abstract: I address the social and economic context at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, when Swedish Pentecostal missionaries arrived in the capital of Pará (Belém) in 1911. I use the newspaper A República from the Republican Club (PA). The objective is to show the other discursive and historical side of the arrival of the Pentecostal missionaries who founded the Assemblies of God, and not only the narrative emphasized in the Official History of the Assemblies of God. I do not intend to delegitimize or pass judgment on the official history, but to bring to light the socioeconomic context in which the missionaries arrived upon disembarking in Belém, Pará. I understand that the discourse of any religious institution is constructed upon knowledge and understanding of the Official (original) History; that is, that every religious institution originated in a given period of time (within a specific historical context, endowed with external implications and influences), formalizing through biographies, resolutions, books, etc., the history of its own religion, while making other narratives related to it invisible. I use Michel Foucault's book *The Archaeology of Knowledge* (2008), which formulated the term "utterance" as a formal and scientific form of knowledge, a legitimate and regulatory knowledge that undergoes discursive changes throughout history. This allows for the comparative capture of the singularities of a theme, influenced by external circumstances such as the politics, economics, and religion of its time. This type of comparison is not aimed at seeking the originality of the discourse, nor at revealing external influences, but rather at the comparative analysis of the utterance (knowledge)—its regularities and particularities. Instituição: Universidade Federal do Maranhão Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2026-06-11T00:00:00Z https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/7101 Título: “Por todos esses sertões em que buscava se ocupar”: Guerras e alianças entre indígenas e os luso-brasileiros nos sertões do Piauí e Maranhão na segunda metade do século XVIII Autor: SILVA, Esmeralda Lima da Primeiro orientador: NAVARRO, Alexandre Guida Abstract: The occupation of the backlands of the captaincies of Maranhão and Piauí, in the 18th century, occurred amid numerous conflicts with the indigenous peoples who occupied and controlled these backlands. This dispute over the territory between Indians and Portuguese intensified even more in the second half of the 18th century, with the occupation movement driven by the corrals and cattle farms in the region. This conquering movement undertaken by sertanists led to the deterritorialization of indigenous peoples and constant instability in colonial settlements, which were sometimes controlled by the Portuguese and sometimes by the indigenous people. This dispute over land produced tensions, wars, conflicts, but also negotiations, agreements and alliances between Indians and Portuguese. In this sense, this dissertation seeks to discuss the expansion and Luso-Brazilian settlement in the backlands of Maranhão and Piauí, but above all seeking to understand the different forms of resistance of indigenous peoples. Seeking to understand how they, faced with different situations and contexts caused by the invasion of their territories, reacted and implemented different survival strategies. Instituição: Universidade Federal do Maranhão Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2023-09-11T00:00:00Z