Do calabouço à elite da capitania: Estratégias e trajetórias sociais da família Gurgel do Amaral no Rio de Janeiro do século XVII

• Autor(a) principal: Motta, Fernando Maia da
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/13517
• topic: family history; history of elites; Rio de Janeiro colonial seventeenth century; história da família; história das elites; Rio de Janeiro colonial; século XVII; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

This dissertation presents the theme of the family setting Gurgel do Amaral in the captaincy of Rio de Janeiro in the early decades of the seventeenth century. The main objectives of the study, therefore, are oriented in order to analyze the historical processes through which passed and was attended by members of this strain in the eventeenth-century Rio de Janeiro. Having been drawn from the wide range of research sources (notary, official correspondence between the governors and so on.) This work has been structured to address issues concerning the modus operandi of seventeenth-century Rio society. Therefore, the specificity of the process of establishment of the French prisoner, Toussaint Grugel, and the way which was initiated at the highest level of society's colonial Luso seventeenth century Rio de Janeiro, helped us a lot in the way we perceive the functioning of society. Taking into account the organizational web of families that made up the body of seventeenth-century elites, we can observe the behavior of many family members and analyzed to realize this, political machineries that united the two sides of the Atlantic: Colony and Metropole. Issues relating to the internal functioning of the means of transmission of the leather family can be seen from the generational inheritance and its passage. And alongside this, the training of priests in the family was a key for this gear.The young ladies, in turn, are part of this complex system through marriages, and soon, access to jobs and fortunes of the couple newcomers. The family Gurgel do Amaral also had a mechanism that allowed them access to the potentates of the region in order to become stronger as a band, the spiritual relationship. Phenomenon that allowed this strain integration necessary for their survival as a family and increase their wealth and political power. So structured, this thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of the history of seventeenth-century colonial elites in Rio de Janeiro at the time of recovery of the conquerors, and the recovery of the history of the city of Rio de Janeiro in that context.