In the name of honour: the commissioners for the holy office and the military orders in Portugal (1570-1773)

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Project title | In the name of honour: the commissioners for the holy office and the military orders in Portugal (1570-1773)
Project Code | PTDC/HAH/64160/2006
Main objective |

Region of intervention |

Beneficiary entity |
  • Universidade de Évora(líder)
  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas(parceiro)

Approval date | 30-07-2007
Start date | 08-10-2007
Date of the conclusion | 08-10-2010

Total eligible cost |
European Union financial support |
National/regional public financial support |
Apoio financeiro atribuído à Universidade de Évora | 0 €

Summary

The nuclear idea of this project consists in comparing the networks of investigating officers ("comissários"), the activity and the relationship between the two main institutions that investigate the honour in Portugal (the Holy Office and the Court of Orders named "Mesa da Consciência"), at the local level and in the political centre.

The inquiry will consist of knowing who are the investigating officers (including the scribes that went with them) and in which way they registered the parameters of the honour in the first hand and what kind of advantages they tried  to extract of this activity both to their careers and social ambitions.Once Castile had similar networks, the project plans to compare what occurred in different points of this territory and Portugal.

The main originality of this project is to jointly study the two institutions that had greater credit in the evaluation of the honour in Portugal and in the rest of the Iberian Peninsula.


Goals, activities and expected/achieved results

Goals

1. Identificação prosopográfica da rede de comissários do Santo Ofício e das Ordens Militares. 2. Cartografia destas redes 3. Análise da actuação dos comissários e notários. 4. Sondagem ao impacto local desta rede. 5. Impacto dos cargos de comissário e notário junto das instituições do centro político-religioso.6. Comparação com zonas do Sul de Castela e com a Ordem de Malta.

Activities

1- Produção de um catálogo e base de dados das habilitações do Santo Ofício.

2- A elaboração e manutenção de www.santooficio.uevora.pt (em construção).

3- Seminários sobre prosopografia, bases de dados e análise de redes.

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