A Corte portuguesa no Brasil: o sistema de aposentadorias nas tramas da História e do jornal Correio Braziliense (1808-1821)

Abstract

We aim to analyze in this article, the impacts of transferring the Portuguese Court to Brazil in the early nineteenth century, discussing the demands surrounding the retirement systems, through documents and papers published in the Portuguese Legislation and in the newspaper Correio Braziliense, in order to identify how this Portuguese government influenced the constitution of urban space in the new capital of Portuguese Empire in the Tropics. The methodology, qualitative and bibliographical and documental interest, had as a theoretical reference, Michel de Certeau (2011) and his conception of “historiographical operation”, and Roger Chartier (2002), and his notion of “representations”. The corpus comprised of texts from the newspaper Correio Braziliense, available in the digital collection from Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin, as well as Regiments, Licenses and Decrees referring to the retirements found in the “Chronological Collection of Portuguese Legislation”, available in the database of Ius Lusitaniae and the Empire Laws Collection, available in the Brazilian House of Representatives Library. Based on the Brazilian and Foreign historiography, the consequences of this infamous system are analyzed, presented by this member as a violence to the property right, marked by the eviction of countless residents of Rio de Janeiro from their homes to give place to the Portuguese Court.