Nobiliary "ethos" in the dusk of the Ancien Régime: symbolic power, empire and social imagery

Authors

  • Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro Universidade de Lisboa; Instituto de Ciências Sociais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1808-8139.v0i2p4-20

Keywords:

elites, Portuguese Empire, Ancien Régime

Abstract

This text aims to discuss some aspects of the portuguese "nobiliary ethos" during the Ancien Régime, that discussion is made as a precondition to the evaluation - even if briefly sketched - of its effects and consequences in the plural society of Portuguese America. The author tries to access in each way ancient patterns, borrowed from the model of the medieval knights but consecrated in the legal and symbolic orders, not only could define behaviors and social structuration processes, but also how these - specially the Crown efforts to function as a regulatory instance of access and reproduction of the nobility - could, reversibly, change those patterns.

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Published

2005-11-01

Issue

No. 2 (2005)

Section

Forum

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