The Confraternities of Misericórdia and the Portuguese Diasporas in the Early Modern Period

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54767-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

During the early modern period, the brotherhoods of Misericórdia were established not only in the overseas territories ruled by the Portuguese, but also beyond their empire, reaching as far as the Philippines and Japan. The twelve chapters of this book examine this expansion by discussing different dimensions of the Misericórdias, such as administration, politics, charitable practices, finances, and forms of discrimination related to social status, gender, and race. Filling a critical gap in anglophone scholarship on the Portuguese Misericórdias, this work's previous absence has been criticized by scholars who believe the Misericórdias are crucial to understanding the past and present of Portuguese communities, both at home and abroad.

Contributors are: Inês Amorim, José Pedro Paiva, Lisbeth Rodrigues, Sara Pinto, Juan O. Mesquida, Rômulo Ehalt, Joana Balsa de Pinho, Andreia Durães, Maria Antónia Lopes, Luciana Gandelman, Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, and Renato Franco.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

dos Guimarães Sá, Isabel

Rodrigues, Lisbeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

List of Maps, Figures and Tables

Introduction

Isabel dos Guimarães Sá and Lisbeth Rodrigues

PART 1:The Misericórdias: Organization, Finances, and Relationship with Other Institutions

1 Local Dynamics: Membership, Governance, and Relations with the Crown

Inês Amorim

2 Bishops and Holy Houses of Mercy in the Portuguese Empire in the Early Modern Age: Welfare, Cooperation, and Conflicts

José Pedro Paiva

3 Financing Early Modern Misericórdias in Portugal and Its Overseas Territories (1500–1800)

Lisbeth Rodrigues

4 Transferring Inheritances across the Oceans: The Financial Role of the Misericórdias

Sara Pinto

5 Contested Philanthropy in Spanish Manila: The Santa Casa de la Misericordia (1594–1869)

Juan O. Mesquida

6 In Their Likeness: Japanese Misericórdias and the Limits of the Misericórdia in Japan (1553–1633)

Rômulo Ehalt

7 The Visual Culture of the Misericórdias: Art and Identity

Joana Balsa de Pinho

PART 2:Charity

8 Caring for the Sick: Hospitals under the Administration of the Misericórdias

Andreia Durães

9 Marrying with the Help of the Misericórdias

Maria Antónia Lopes

10 The Misericórdias and the Preservation of Female Honor

Luciana Gandelman

11 The Misericórdias and the Economy of Salvation: Inheritances, Masses, and Funerals

Isabel dos Guimarães Sá

12 The Santas Casas de Misericórdia and Care for Foundlings in the Portuguese Empire (16th–18th Centuries)

Renato Franco

Epilogue

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, Ph.D. (1992), European University Institute, teaches Early Modern History at the University of Minho. She has researched widely in the fields of the history of Portugal and of its empire from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

Lisbeth Rodrigues, Ph.D. (2013), University of Minho, is an Assistant Professor of History at Nova School of Business and Economics, Nova University of Lisbon, and a researcher at ISEG, University of Lisbon. She has published widely on Portuguese welfare institutions and the credit market, including Debt Litigation and the Performance of the Law Courts in Eighteenth-Century Portugal (2019).