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Abstract
This text aims to discuss some aspects of the portuguese “nobiliary ethos”
during the Ancien Régime, that discussion is made as a precondition to
the evaluation – even if briefly sketched - of its effects and consequences
in the plural society of Portuguese America. The author tries to access
in each way ancient patterns, borrowed from the model of the medieval
knights but consecrated in the legal and symbolic orders, not only could
define behaviors and social structuration processes, but also how these
- specially the Crown efforts to function as a regulatory instance of access
and reproduction of the nobility - could, reversibly, change those patterns.
Palavras-chave
elites, Império português, Antigo Regime
Keywords
elites, Portuguese Empire, Ancien Régime