Entre o nome e o sangue: a família Cunha Meneses no antigo regime português (séculos XVII-XVIII)

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Alan Ricardo Duarte
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5771
• topic: Família; Império português; Nobreza; Antigo regime português; Family; Portuguese empire; Nobility; Old portugueses regime; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

Satirized in white decasyllable verses of Vila Rica’s ouvidor, Tomás António Gonzaga, in Minas Gerais in the eighteenth century, individuals of the family Cunha Meneses - especially Luis da Cunha Meneses, the Fanfarrão Minésio - have become icons of an insolent and despotic government in the overseas domains. Right or wrong, this family representation crossed, over the years, the field of history and literature. However, as it is praised, on one hand, the information contained in gonzaguiana narrative, on the other, little is known about the social origins of the members of this family in Portugal. As a result, the exercise of our research had as main objective to dig into the Cunha Meneses’ family history between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thus, the starting point was limited, mainly to the analysis of lines of succession of the firstborn - especially sons - the matrimonial alliances, stratification vectors, of the services provided to the king, and titles and privileges. We note that the core of family dynamics was located in a specific aspect: social reproduction and / or biological. As a background, it was possible to identify characteristics of nobility in the context of the Ancien Régime and especially in the Portuguese Empire.