Olhares inquisitoriais na Amazônia portuguesa: O Tribunal do Santo Ofício e o disciplinamento dos costumes (XVII-XIX)

Abstract

Study on the proceedings of the Court of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in the State of Maranhão e Grão-Pará from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. In this paper, we analyze the proceedings of the Inquisition in Portuguese Amazonia, focusing especially on the nature of the offenses practiced by the regional population and on the proceedings of the Court and its contribution to the regional policies of the Pombaline era, based on the study of the inquisitorial trials of Indians, negroes and mestizos, during the Visitation period of 1763 to 1773.