Abstract
The Portuguese Inquisition in the colonies of the Empire remains understudied due to a lack of primary source materials that are available the researchers and educators. The advances in digital technologies and the current drive to foster Open Access have allowed us to understand better the relations among the complex set of circumstances as well as the mechanisms that, in their totality, represent the Portuguese Inquisition. The present paper seeks to answer questions that vary from describing these resources to identifying the institutions that created them. Digitized resources serve as a surrogate of the originals, and we can leverage the access to these electronic surrogates and enhance our understanding of the mechanisms of inquisition through E-Inquisitional objects in pedagogy and research.
Highlights
The Portuguese Inquisition in the colonies of the Empire remains understudied due to a lack of primary source materials that are available the researchers and educators
Pendse and secondary sources on the Portuguese Inquisition that are in the public domain
Silveira provides a complete transcription of many of the regimentos that might serve as an important source on the Portuguese Inquisition in Brazil
Summary
Multiple sources describe the documentary evidence related to the Portuguese Inquisition in great detail. Sonia Aparecida de Silveira provides an in-depth account of most of the regimentos, a compilation of the laws that governed the inquisition in Brazil She suggests that the Portuguese wanted to replicate their world in the new colony, and so royal, ecclesiastical, and inquisitorial laws and policies were applied to regulate the lives of the colonized. Silveira provides a complete transcription of many of the regimentos that might serve as an important source on the Portuguese Inquisition in Brazil. This compilation of rules and regulations does not tell the whole story. Some researchers likewise experience travel constraints for various reasons, and access to digital surrogates of the actual records enhances their ability to work effectively with the documents
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