As criptojudias e suas práticas culturais no final do século XVI (Pernambuco, Itamaracá e Paraíba).

Abstract

This work seeks to bring the daily experiences and tactics of the Portuguese Crypto-Jews in the period in which the Visitor of the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Portuguese Inquisition arrives for the first time the Captaincies of Pernambuco, Itamaracá and Paraíba, between the years of 1593 to 1595.Seeking to problematize the cultural practices of Jewish origin that appeared in the denunciations that arrived at the table of the inquisitorial representative, Heitor Furtado de Mendonça, against these women. At first, we sought to understand the relationship between the figure of the new Christian and the establishment of the Inquisitorial Tribunal in Portugal, analyzing the stigmas that fall on this group in the country. To work, therefore, on the forms of living that are built between the groups of old and new christians in Brazil at the end of the sixteenth century and the role reserved for the female figure in the Portuguese colonization project, addressing and highlighting their mockery that was exercised in the daily life. The source of Inquisitorial origin; Both the denunciations and confessions made to the Visitor, and some processes that resulted from this visitation, are of prime importance for the construction of this work.