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- Convenor:
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Federico Palomo
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Location:
- Sala 78, Piso 1
- Sessions:
- Friday 19 July, -, -
Time zone: Europe/Lisbon
Short Abstract:
This panel search to bring to light the role played by Franciscans in the Portuguese Imperial experiences. It will focus on Franciscan written culture, stressing their contribution to the circulation of knowledge and practices through the different contexts of the Portuguese Empire
Long Abstract:
Franciscan had a social, religious, and cultural central position in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire. Historiography has traditionally stressed the Jesuit impact on missionary culture and knowledge (linguistic, ethnographical, geographical, etc.) in the Iberian colonial worlds, often ignoring the role played by other religious groups. In this regard, this panel search to bring to light the Franciscan contribution to the circulation of knowledge and practices through the different contexts of the Portuguese Empire. It will focus on the analysis of the cultural and written practices of the Franciscan friars, considering the contexts of production and reception that involved their activities as writers. In this regard, it will try to answer to questions as what conditions, at different times and different colonial contexts, shaped the Franciscan perception, meanings and uses of the writing activity; what were the erudite 'routines' related to the production of their texts; which representations and discursive strategies were used in certain written genres; what criteria defined the circulation of knowledge and texts within and outside the order.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Friday 19 July, 2013, -Paper short abstract:
This paper aims to study the paratexts and the censorship of the complete work of Frei Jacinto de Deus, from the province of Madre de Deus de Gôa, showing up a group of discursive mechanisms with editorial orientation and trying to analyse the circulation of his written production.
Paper long abstract:
Paratexts are presentation means for works, authors, social, religious and cultural positions in the Early Modern Age. They format readers perception about literary texts, taking into consideration the author, the intended public and the work's merit. Taking as starting point the paratexts that precede the written production of the capuchin Frei Jacinto de Deus, published in Portugal - Escudos dos Cavalleiros das Ordens Militares (1670), Tribunal da Provincia da Madre de Deos dos Capuchos da Índia Oriental (1670), Brachiologia de Príncipes (1971), Caminho dos Frades Menores para a Vida Eterna (1689) e Vergel de Plantas, e Flores da Provincia da Madre de Deos dos Capuchos Reformados (1690) -, this paper aims to provide a framework of the editorial visibility and this monk's image, considering the articulation between production origin and literary function. In this regard, it will focus on the analysis of prologues to the readers and dedications to bring to light how the reading of a text can be affected by representations and discursive strategies.
Paper short abstract:
An analysis of the third part of the "Conquista Espiritual do Oriente" by Frei Paulo da Trindade, the main Franciscan source for the religious history of Ceylon.
Paper long abstract:
This paper will revolve around a careful analysis of the narrative strategies of Frei Paulo da Trindade in the third part of the "Conquista Espiritual do Oriente", the main Franciscan source for the religious history of Ceylon. I will be looking out for echoes of the conflict that opposed the Franciscans, who were the sole missionaries in the island during the sixteenth century, to the Jesuits, who entered the field around 1600. Attention will be paid to the relationship between narrative and geographical descriptions and to the dense historical passages exploring the island's Buddhist and Hindu past, highlighting the importance of the work in the overall panorama of seventeenth-century Portuguese imperial literature.
Paper short abstract:
This paper analyses the Relação written by a Franciscan born in India that includes memorials and letters used to solve the jurisdictional problems of his Franciscan overseas province in the Iberian and Roman corridors of political decision
Paper long abstract:
In this paper I intend to analyse the travel of a Franciscan friar born in India that reclaimed to be of Portuguese origin, to Madrid and Rome. Friar Miguel da Purificação was sent to the capitals of the Hispanic Monarchy and of Respublica Christiana, in the decade of 1630, as a procurator of the Province of Saint-Thomas of India, in order to solve some jurisdictional problems that this Province faced during the first decades of the 17th century.
During his trip, friar Miguel da Purificação wrote a Relação where he describes his experience in the corridors of political decision relating religious matters of the empire of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. Moreover, the Relação of friar Miguel is full of memorials and letters that he presented to Philip IV, to the Pope, and to other decision-makers, besides referring, as well, books and other writings that he would like to see published.
For all these reasons, this case allows us to discuss: a) questions related to the writing activity of Franciscans, their intelectual routines, and the ways writing was parto f their dayly lives, contributing to bring to light their experience and their role in the cultural constitution of the Portuguese empire; b) aspects of the inner life of political decision through the eyes of a "colonizer" that was not born in the metropolitan world, who faced dilemas that approximated his experience to the experience of a "colonized".
Paper short abstract:
This paper analyses the historical works of Fr. Apolinário da Conceição, a Franciscan brother born in the Portuguese America. It focuses on Primazia Seráfica (1733), trying to understand the context in which this work was written, and the kind of discourses it mobilized regarding the American world.
Paper long abstract:
In this paper, I intend to analyze the historical and hagiographical works produced by Fr. Apolinário da Conceição, a Franciscan secular brother born in the Portuguese America at the end of the XVIIth Besides his great and more popular Pequeninos na terra, grandes no Ceo (an hagiographical text published in Lisbon, in five volumes, between 1732 and 1754), he wrote and published some other writings regarding Portuguese Franciscan History and Hagiography, as Primazia Seráfica na America (Lisbon, 1733). In order to understand a work like this one, I will consider, in a first time, the contexts in which the Primazia was elaborated and published, bearing particularly in mind the status that Conceição had inside the Franciscan order and the possibilities he had to become a 'writer/author'. In a second time, I will discuss the images and discourses concerning America and, especially, the Portuguese America, that Conceição, as a person who belong to the Brazilian world, could employ in a text as Primazia, devoted to stress the role played by Franciscan friars in the American missionary enterprise.
Paper short abstract:
This paper aims to contribute to the knowledge of Franciscan authors’ writing practices of the seventeenth century, in Portugal, and in the portuguese empire, in order to allow a preliminary assessment of this editorial production.
Paper long abstract:
«Para que se empenhem com fervoroso desvelo nos exercicios da santidade, se ordenão semelhantes escrittos, mostrandolhes os passos para a vida eterna» (Fr. Fernando da SOLEDADE (O.F.M.), «Historia Serafica...», 1709: writing practices and circulation of role models in Franciscan's production in Portugal, in the seventeenth century.
Being the seventeenth century, in Portugal, a time of a wide range production and circulation of works, mainly Jesuit matrix, this paper intends to conduct an initial assessment of the Franciscan's editorial production in the same chronological period, identifying authors, themes and editorial 'guidelines '.