Röhrig Assunção, Matthias (2025) “Upholding the Constitution and the Saintly Catholic Religion, Loving the Fatherland and the Emperor”: Popular Liberalism and the Ideas of the Balaio rebels in the Brazilian province of Maranhão. In: Global Portuguese Literary, Historical, Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches. Brill, Leiden, pp. 214-245. ISBN 9789004710511. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004710511_011
Röhrig Assunção, Matthias (2025) “Upholding the Constitution and the Saintly Catholic Religion, Loving the Fatherland and the Emperor”: Popular Liberalism and the Ideas of the Balaio rebels in the Brazilian province of Maranhão. In: Global Portuguese Literary, Historical, Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches. Brill, Leiden, pp. 214-245. ISBN 9789004710511. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004710511_011
Röhrig Assunção, Matthias (2025) “Upholding the Constitution and the Saintly Catholic Religion, Loving the Fatherland and the Emperor”: Popular Liberalism and the Ideas of the Balaio rebels in the Brazilian province of Maranhão. In: Global Portuguese Literary, Historical, Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches. Brill, Leiden, pp. 214-245. ISBN 9789004710511. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004710511_011
Abstract
In our chapter, we explore the Balaiada rebellion in Maranhão, Brazil (1838-41), highlighting the bem-te-vis' commitment to the rights enshrined in the 1824 Constitution as expressed in their own words in manifestos & letters. Their unique blend of liberalism, patriotism, and a popular form of egalitarian Catholicism offers a fascinating perspective on popular liberalism during this tumultuous period.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | History |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, School of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2025 11:11 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2025 11:11 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/41297 |
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