Between the ancient and the modern: history writing and moral lessons in Brazil in the 19th century

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Evandro
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/66663
• topic: História da historiografia; Antigos e Modernos; IHGB; História da historiografia; History of historiography; Ancient and Modern; IHGB

This paper aims to examine the presence of ancient authors in the historiographical production of the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute (IHGB), founded in Rio de Janeiro, in the middle of the 19th century. In order to do that, we have considered some texts published in Revista do IHGB in the light of the current debate about this topic. Regarded as seminal sources of the history of historiography, an approach that supports this analysis, such writings provide important elements to the debate, which is still open. In this sense, we have argued that, despite their participation in the long process of establishment of modernity and their both epistemological and rhetorical participation, the moral aspects provided by the ancient authors operated as a discursive link between the power of the imperial State and the emerging history discipline.