[pt] O Padre António Vieira profetizava que o futuro de Portugal seria brilhante como nação universalizadora do Catolicismo. E o Brasil, condição e parte integrante desse plano divino. Pelo teor dessas idéias e pelo seu envolvimento com os judeus, acabou sendo condenado pelo Santo Ofício como herege, passando 2 anos (1665-1667) preso nos Cárceres da Inquisição de Coimbra. Esta tese pretende, através da leitura e análise da História do Futuro, importante obra profética do jesuíta, focalizar a questão do visionarismo do padre, estabelecendo uma conexão entre o pensamento vieiriano e as visões providencialistas e milenaristas que persistem até hoje no imaginário brasileiro. / [en] The father Antônio Vieira predicted that Portugal future would be brilliant as a nation capable to universalise the Catoliciscim. Furthermore, Brazil would be a milestone in such a divine plan. Because of the meaning of his ideas and because of his envolvement with the Jews, he was condemned by the ecclesiastical tribunal as heretic, and was imprisoned for two years (1665-1667) in the prison of the Inquisition in Coimbra. This thesis aims, through reading and analysing the History of the Future, an important phrofetic work of the Jesuitic, to focus the visionarism of the Father António Vieira, establishing a link between the vierianism and his miracoulus vision which have came up to the present, in Brazilian imaginary.

The focus of this thesis is the Visio Baronti (VB), an account of a seventh-century monk's journey to the other world. This text serves as a metaphoric fulcrum to support a more extensive study of early medieval conceptions of the other world and the historical context in which visionary accounts were produced. Chapter 1 contains an introduction to ideas of the other world, a survey of types of visionary experiences, their uses, imitations and historiographical responses to them. Chapter 2 focuses on medieval and modern responses to visions. This chapter includes a survey of the terminology for dreams and visions found in theoretical writings, compares dream theory with otherworld visions and identifies medieval methods of determining the validity of a visionary experience. Chapter 3 investigates the manuscript tradition of the VB, in order to illuminate medieval receptions and treatments of this text. Because the text appears unusual for the seventh century, chapter 4 provides an analysis of the grounds for dating the VB to the seventh century, while chapter 5 treats the VB in its seventh-century monastic context and assesses what influences shaped this text. Chapter 6 compares Barontus's vision with ninth-century visions and other Carolingian writings to consider Carolingian interest in the VB in light of their contributions to the genre. Chapter 7 examines the artistic response to this text through an examination of the illustrations which accompany the text in the ninth-century St Petersburg manuscript. A brief conclusion to this study follows.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:25:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GilEAM_DISSERT.pdf: 2115445 bytes, checksum: 1e49b5f3c71287ff3c2ed565ccf0e80a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05-05 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Iconic historical figure, Ant?nio Vieira (1608-1697) is regarded as an essential character to the Luso-Brazilian history. Between 1646 and 1667, the priest began writing the History of the Future, the first volume of the celebrated "Clavis Prophetarum , political and theological unity that would leverage the process of spread of Christianity across the globe, recognizing Portugal as forefront and center of all millenarian movement. Them, Jesuit represented the "World" in two metaphors: "theater" and "body" responsible for viewing spaces of abstract Christian truth. Starting from the hermeneutical assumptions of analysis, we investigated the historical relations present in the construction of such representations, by which establish the dialogue between politics, theology and seventeenth-century rhetoric. Therefore, the following study supports the hypothesis that beyond a mere stylistic expressions, spatial metaphors of "World" were formulated by Antonio Vieira as a resource that could sharpen the minds of his readers, engaging words into action, become alive and effective use of rhetoric / Emblem?tica figura hist?rica, Ant?nio Vieira (1608-1697) ? considerado um personagem indispens?vel para a hist?ria luso-brasileira. Entre os anos de 1646 e 1667, o padre iniciou a escrita da Hist?ria do Futuro, primeiro volume da c?lebre Clavis Prophetarum , obra que anunciava o surgimento do Quinto Imp?rio , unidade pol?tico-teol?gica que alavancaria o processo de difus?o do Cristianismo por todo o planeta, reconhecendo Portugal como vanguarda e centro de todo o movimento milenarista. Nelas, o jesu?ta representou o Mundo em duas met?foras: teatro e corpo , espa?os respons?veis pela visualiza??o da abstrata verdade crist?. Partindo dos pressupostos hermen?uticos de an?lise, investigamos as rela??es hist?ricas presentes na constru??o de tais representa??es, por meio das quais estabelecemos o di?logo entre a pol?tica, teologia e ret?rica seiscentista. Portanto, o seguinte estudo defende a hip?tese que para al?m de um mera manifesta??o estil?stica, a espacializa??o do Mundo em met?foras foi formulada por Ant?nio Vieira como recurso em que se pudesse agu?ar os ?nimos de seus leitores, empenhar palavras em a??es, tornar vivo e efetivo o uso de sua ret?rica