Juízes do sertão colonial: compondo espaços jurídicos na Capitania de Pernambuco, no séc. XVIII

Abstract

Historically, the hinterland was for a time seen as a place without justice. This study aims to discuss the backcountry judicial spaces from the performance of the agents of justice in that spatiality. Even with the lack of an institutional apparatus, it is possible to perceive the presence of the court. The hinterland maintained its own dynamics of justice, where the ordinary judge was one of its main exponents, a perspective still little addressed by historiography. The documentary collection used are administrative manuscripts, found in the Lisbon Overseas Historical Archive (Rescue Project), and in the Jordão Emerenciano Public Archive (APEJE), also printed sources from the Annals of the National Library of Rio de Janeiro. These sources help to establish the institutional presence of the ordinary judge in the interior of the Pernambuco Captaincy, as well as his social role in the 18th century in that spatiality.