Abstract
The present paper addresses the Brazilian’s early Old Republic legal imaginary taking as key of reading the popular insurrection of the Camp of Canudos. Using the relation between imagination and law as methodology for the interpretation of the sources, the analysis of some elements of the legal culture on the studied period and of the Antônio Conselheiro’s manuscripts leads to evidences of the fixedness, almost at the 20th Century, of a legal imaginary with strong pre-modern tendencies.
Keywords:
Legal history; Legal imaginary; Camp of Canudos