An edifying practice: a letter from a missionary jesuit to the king of Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto Terceiro, Moisés Laert
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Araújo, Joana Luiza Muylaert de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Letras (Santa Maria. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/letras/article/view/38054
• topic: Antônio Vieira; Ars Dictaminis; Jesuit epistolography; Antônio Vieira; Cartas jesuíticas; Ars Dictaminis

This article presents some elements that compose the Jesuits' epistle practice in the old State of Maranhão and Grão-Pará, using a particular example represented by a letter of Father Antônio Vieira. Stemming from observations by authors such as Alcir Pécora and João Adolfo Hansen, among others, the writing that proceeds attempts to demonstrate and to discuss the fact that the Jesuit letters are inserted in discursive practices current at the time of the missions in the territory of the colony, especially in the 17th century. The demonstration of the constituent elements of the Jesuit epistolography emphasizes more the edifying character of those letters than the factual one.