Submitted by Maria Dulce (mdulce@ndc.uff.br) on 2014-10-24T19:52:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Figueiredo, Cecilia-Tese-Historia-2014.pdf: 1818707 bytes, checksum: f0b9c9b68bc06b34087323f7fbbba950 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-24T19:52:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Figueiredo, Cecilia-Tese-Historia-2014.pdf: 1818707 bytes, checksum: f0b9c9b68bc06b34087323f7fbbba950 (MD5) / O trabalho tem por objeto o estudo da ação dos esmoleiros da Bula da Santa Cruzada, no período de 1748 a 1828, na região das Minas. Buscou-se entender o significado da arrecadação da esmola para Portugal cujo objetivo era combater os infiéis no norte da África e defender a fé cristã, além da manutenção das praças mercantis. A tese aborda os significados da arrecadação das esmolas, a importância para Portugal da defesa da cristandade e as representações simbólicas da doação, além de tratar da desconfiança dos doadores na Colônia. Procurou-se ainda caracterizar as modalidades de esmoleiros mores e menores e a especificidade dos tesoureiros da Bula como agentes a serviço do Estado e os privilégios detidos em razão do exercício da função e o lugar de distinção na sociedade da época. O trabalho ainda aborda a importância da Bula através das festas e rituais que tinham lugar na Colônia à época de sua publicação anual, onde compareciam autoridades civis e eclesiásticas, ato que legitimava os benefícios da Bula e conferia aos seus oficiais, reconhecimento, posição e autoridade. E mostra como a representação simbólica do infiel atualizava-se nas cavalhadas, onde a luta entre mouros e cristãos era ritualizada, momento de atualização do mito constitutivo da história política portuguesa. / This work it takes as an object the study of the meaning of the action of the Alms beggar of the Bull of the Saint Crusade, in the period from 1748 to 1828, in the region of the Mines. It was looked to understand the meaning of the tax revenue of the donation of Portugal which objective was to fight the unfaithful ones in the north of Africa and to defend the Christian faith, besides the maintenance of the mercantile squares. The dissertation boards the meanings of the tax revenue of the charities, the importance for Portugal of the defense of the Christhendom and the symbolic representations of the donation, besides treating the suspicion of the donors in the Colony. It tried still to characterize the kinds of Alms beggars live and juveniles and the especifical of the treasurers of the Bull like agents to service of the State and privileges detained on account of the exercise of the function and the place of distinction in the society of the time. The work still boards the importance of the Bull through parties and rituals what had place in the Colony to the time of his annual publication, where there were appearing civil and ecclesiastical authorities, act that was legitimizing the benefits of the Bull and was tallying to his officials, recognition, position and authority. And display like the symbolic representation of the unfaithful one was updating in the herds of horses, where the struggle between Moorish and Christian was ritualized, moment of updating of the constitutive myth of the Portuguese political history.

This thesis is composed of a collection of twelve short stories, varying in length from 2 to 14 pages. Each story contains its own discrete theme, but fits as well within the overarching theme of the collection as a whole. This overarching theme is what gives the collection its cohesiveness. The main theme of the larger work can be found in the title of the collection, People on the Edges of Dreams. In many of the stories dreams, or dream-states, figure in the lives of the protagonists. In addition to the dream-state theme there is a less obvious theme, which has to do with the extent to which most or all of the main characters in the stories are faced with a kind of inescapable compassion for others. For example, the selfinvolved, self-gratifying protagonist in Matador cannot help but feel compassion first for Pearl, the woman he insults, and second for the "bums" on whom his livelihood depends. The theme of inescapable compassion can, I believe, be found to varying degrees in each of the stories in this collection.