TRANSGRESSION OF MARRIAGE: AN INDIAN IN THE CLAWS OF THE PORTUGUESE INQUISITION

Abstract

This article aims to revisit the Portuguese Inquisition during its performance in Brazil Colony, more specifically in the Captaincy of Pernambuco in the early nineteenth century, and analyze how this institution behaved in the face of possible heresies committed by indigenous peoples, in this way we lean particularly on the inquisitorial process of the Indian Miguel Dias Lopes accused of bigamy and arrested for this crime in 1802 in Vila de Olinda. Thus, we also seek to understand the perception of the Holy Office on the crime/sin of bigamy, since the bigamist, from the perspective of this institution, performed not only a social transgression, but, above all, a religious one, revealing itself, therefore, a heretic, a "suspicious in the faith". To guide our research, we used as a basis the methodological reflections undertaken by Carlo Ginzburg for the analysis of inquisitorial documents, bibliographical reviews of authors who work on this theme, revisiting of biblical passages and analysis of the inquisitorial crime process belonging to the Torre do Tombo National Archive (ANTT ) made available in digital format on the website of the aforementioned Archive.