Cronista de uma custódia distante: fr. Manuel da Ilha e sua Narrativa da Custódia de santo Antônio do Brasil (1621)

• Autor(a) principal: Pacheco, Moreno Laborda
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de História (São Paulo)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/135219
• topic: Colonial Brazil; Order of Friars Minor; Manuel da Ilha; O.F.M; Vicente do Salvador; O.F.M.; Custody of Saint Anthony of Brazil; Brasil Colonial; Ordem dos Frades Menores; fr. Manuel da Ilha; fr. Vicente do Salvador; Custódia de santo Antônio do Brasil

In the midst of a burgeoning Franciscan historiography, in the first few decades of the 17th century, friar Manuel da Ilha, chronicler from the province of Saint Anthony of Portugal, wrote a historical narrative about the custody of Saint Anthony of Brazil (1621). This article seeks to explore this work along with the guidelines that oriented the Franciscan historiography during that period, such as the growing efforts to back those reports with existing documents or the frequent interest in describing episodes of rivalry with other religious orders. The analysis focuses on the connections established between the Order of the Friars Minor and the Crown, both in its more conceptual or abstract meaning and the reality experienced in the frontiers of the Portuguese Empire.