TY - JOUR AU - Santos, Zulmira C. PY - 2016/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - In search of “Franciscan” Brazil: memory and territorialization in Friar António Maria Jaboatão’s Orbe Seraphico Brasilico (1761) JF - Culture & History Digital Journal JA - Cult. Hist. Digit. J. VL - 5 IS - 2 SE - Dossier DO - 10.3989/chdj.2016.016 UR - https://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/103 SP - e016 AB - The main objective of this article is the study of the chronicle <em>Orbe Serafico Novo Brazilico</em>, by the Franciscan Friar Antonio Maria Jaboatão. The article attempts to study the ways in which the chronicle’s textual organization contributes towards a ‘Franciscanization’ of Brazil, at a time when the Society of Jesus, having been expelled from Portugal in 1759, found itself in a very difficult situation. Even though the idea of a “Franciscan World” has its roots in much older models, Friar Jaboatao’s chronicle presents a model of evangelization different from that of the Society of Jesus. He emphasizes the territorial dimension by creating a “geography” of Franciscan churches and convents, thus symbolically appropriating the Brazilian territory. ER -