Misie a smysl misijní činnosti v raně koloniální Brazílii
                               optikou kroniky História do Brasil Vicenteho ze Salvadoru











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            * Kalenda František
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            Missions and the Relevance of Missionary Activities in Early Colonial Brazil in Vicente of

            História do Brasil

            Abstrakt

            While Jesuit missions and missionary activities in early Colonial Brazil have been thoroug
            in the Czech Republic and elsewhere, Franciscan missionaries hailing from the period leadi
            1630 destruction of the Olinda Centre are often forgotten or left for the historians of th

            Order to deal with. A striking lack of primary Franciscan period sources on the subject is
            responsible for this state; the vast majority of available Franciscan primary sources date

            later period, to the 18th century. The completely preserved and not thoroughly studied His
            by Vicente of Salvador, a Franciscan custodian and historiographer from 1630, is therefore
            source of information on the Franciscan order in Brazil and its missionary activities in t

            colony. Although missions and not even Vicente’s order itself are not in the epicentre of 
            it contains both practical information on the Franciscan activities on Brazilian soil and,
            more importantly, a specific point of view on the meaning of missions to the indigenous po

            his Jesuit contemporaries and Franciscan colleagues from a later period, Vicente of Salvad
            provide a particularly successful narrative of missionary activities, and remains rather s
            the potential of christianising “gentiles”. Instead, he sees indigenous Brazilians as wide

            of becoming Christians, and favours force and even defends enslavement as an alternative t
            missions. These views, differing from the other contemporary Jesuit sources and the later 
            chroniclers, being much closer to the view of colonists, make his account even more fascin

            attention-worth.

            Klíčová slova

            Franciscan Order; Colonial Brazil; mission; stereotypes; Society of Jesus; Vicente of Salv

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