As Ordenações Manuelinas, a tipografia e os descobrimentos: a construção de um ideal régio de justiça no governo do Império Ultramarino português

Angélica Barros Gama

Manueline Ordinations, typography and discoveries

the construction of a royal ideal of justice in the government of the Portuguese Overseas Empire

Authors

Angélica Barros Gama Mestranda pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Social.

Keywords:

Manuelinas Ordinances, Portuguese Right, D. Manuel I

Abstract

This article deals with genesis of the Portuguese Ordinances, mainly of the Manuelinas Ordinances, with the objective to argue, the of formation context of these codices, its sources and the difficulties found for its compilation. With approach for the manuelino period, the analysis falls again on the regal ideal that guideline the construction of the image of D. Manuel, disclosed for the adoption of one based regal politics in justice and the relation with the religious one.