Entre a magia e a sedução: o imaginário feminino inquisitorial e a influência medieval na colônia

Abstract

In 1551, the Lisbon Court extended its jurisdiction to Portuguese colonies, including Brazil. Forty years after the extension, Portuguese America receives its first inquisitorial visit with the arrival of Heitor Furtado de Mendonça, in Salvador on July 28, 1591, after his life went through extensive scrutiny to receive a visitor's nomination. This visit was motivated by the great Jewish presence in the colony, however, every kind of deviation of doctrine was the target of inquisitorial investigation. Witchcraft, being one of the heresies that deviated from Christian-Christian dogmas, was also the target of both denunciation and investigation. It is a crime or any other crime, or social malaise, involving the damage of the man's soul, mainly through sexual and sexual acts, those that have been authorized to women. Thus, the present work intends to analyze a female figure through the inquisitorial process against and Violante Carneira, emphasizing the demonizing misogynistic legacy fortified through mediation in the accusations of aggression, a practice supposedly linked to the figure of the woman.