Christian economy and religious politics: Luigi Vincenzo Mamiani’s “Memorial sobre o governo temporal do colégio de São Paulo”

Authors

  • Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron Professor Titular de História da Universidade e São Paulo
  • Gustavo Velloso Mestrando do Programa de Pós Graduação em História Social da Universidade de São Paulo

Abstract

The article aims to present an important documentary source that has received little attention of historiography and that reports on and analyses the situation of the Indians who worked at the Jesuit college of São Paulo: the “Memorial” written by Father Luigi Vincenzo Mamiani, S.J., during a visit to that college around 1700. After situating it in its particular (social, demographic and intellectual) context, we summarize and then analyse its content. We emphasize the use of time categories by Mamiani to characterize and intervene on the material structures of the São Paulo region and also a peculiar link between economy, morality and religion. The transcription of the source is attached at the end of this paper.

Keywords: College of São Paulo, indigenous labour, religious politics.

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Published

2015-04-07

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Vol. 19 No. 2 (2015): May/August

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