Banca de DEFESA: ABIMAEL ESDRAS CARVALHO DE MOURA LIRA

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STUDENT : ABIMAEL ESDRAS CARVALHO DE MOURA LIRA
DATE: 19/12/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Meet - Online
TITLE:

ROYAL OFFICERS IN OVERSEAS STATES: SERVICES, FAVORS AND OFFICE OWNERSHIP IN THE NORTHERN CAPTAINCIES (1534-1758)

KEY WORDS:

Office properties. Office servitudes. Overseas royal officialdom. Civil administrative offices. Socio-spatial hierarchization. Political-territorial status.

PAGES: 822
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This thesis proposes to analyze the functioning of the civil administration implanted and adapted by the Portuguese in the Northern Captaincies (Pernambuco, Itamaracá, Paraíba, Rio Grande, and Ceará) during the period from 1534 to 1758. The general objective of this research was to understand the mechanisms of granting, provision, and succession of civil administrative offices in the colonial administration, seeking to investigate how the services rendered, the royal benefices granted, and the properties of these offices contributed to the consolidation of power and the effective royal presence, as well as to the strengthening of the production and reproduction of local elites in overseas administration. This investigation was based on an extensive set of sources, such as the Philippine and Manueline Ordinances, royal charters, administrative processes from the Overseas Council, captaincy archives, records of appointments, benefices, and specific administrative acts related to municipal notaries’ offices, as well as other civil offices. Methodologically, it utilized critical documentary analysis combined with historiographical approaches that privilege the understanding of power relations, clientelistic networks, and the legal normativity of colonial administration. This research also relied on historical retrospectives, comparative observations, and micro-historical analysis of the personal and family trajectories of some social agents involved in office provisions. Through this, these offices were characterized as instruments of local power and powerful elements of social regulation, and the discursive and political strategies employed by contemporary social agents to obtain royal benefices were identified, as well as changes in the criteria of provision from the 16th to the 18th centuries, associated with various political-military and administrative contexts and events that punctuated the contemporary social reality. This thesis highlights the importance of family networks and clientelistic relations in the perpetuation of office holdings and administrative transformations implemented by the crown in the pursuit of a rationalization process in the late first half of the 18th century. Ultimately, this research contributes to the understanding of the Portuguese Crown's governability in a specific overseas area, evidencing the articulations among royal power, social customs, and administrative practices that structured and enabled the Old Regime in the Northern Captaincies of Portuguese America.

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