Reading and Sociability in Female: Paula de Sequeira in the sixteenth-century Brazil

ABSTRACT

The present text aims to emphasize how the documentation produced by the Holy Office of the Inquisition - namely denunciations, confessions and processes - contains relevant and differentiated information about aspects as diverse as, in the case under study, sociability and reading of forbidden texts, in the sixteenth-century Brazil. It is a case study, focused on a woman, Paula de Sequeira, who owns a small library, whose books were read intensively in silence and before a restricted audience.

Keywords:
Inquisition; Reading; Jorge de Montemaior; Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos; Sodomy