O reinado de D. João V e o processo de domínio político e social nas Minas Gerais do século XVIII

Abstract

The analysis of the colonial parties in the América Portuguesa always prioritized the regulator and the hierarchical character of those events. Evidently, one cannot deny that aspect. This article presents a differentiated analysis: in which ways those festivities, in the auriferous areas, could be constituted in a macro symbol of the political and religious organization of the State of D. João V, representing a metaphor of the Portuguese society guided by the precepts and mechanisms of a political theology that for its turn was established on the own organic metaphor of the State as a “mystic body”, in which the King was the head and the society represented the members.