Mariana Armond Dias Paes
Biographic Data
| ID | 808043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariana Armond Dias Paes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariana Armond Dias |
| FAMILY NAME | Paes |
| SIGNATURE | PAES M A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1513-4947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Law and History in Angola
Court records are rich primary sources to social historians, and much attention has been paid to these types of documents in different African territories. In most cases only summaries have survived, but in Angola complete proceedings have been preserved. Examining the court case collection available at the Benguela District Court, we discuss its strengths and methodological challenges, and present possible themes for future research. The use of …
Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil
African slaves were brought into Brazil as early as 1530, with abolition in 1888. During those three centuries, Brazil received 4,000,000 Africans, over four times as many as any other American destination. Comparatively speaking, Brazil received 40% of the total number of Africans brought to the Americas, while the US received approximately 10%. Due to this huge influx of Africans, today Brazil’s African-descended population is larger than the p…
Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil
Témoignage
[video:paes] Mariana Armond Dias Paes est Research Group Leader au Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Frankfurt am Main), autrice de l'article L’histoire devant les tribunaux : la notion d’esclavage contemporain dans les décisions judiciaires brésiliennes publié dans le n° 11 en 2017, dossier "esclavage contemporain"
To be dependent in the Brazilian Empire
This article examines the arguments used in an 1835 court case filed before the Court of Appeals of Rio de Janeiro. This analysis highlights t hat: a) the considerable number of African slaves and the existence of a shared culture in the South Atlantic had a strong impact on freedmen’s and freedwomen’s experiences of freedom; b) masters resisted freedpersons demands for rights and tried to sust ai n dependency relations; and c) in a context of pr…
Shared Atlantic legal culture
Through an examination of arguments used in an 1866 freedom suit initiated in Benguela, this article highlights the existence of a shared legal culture in the Lusophone Atlantic. Through in-depth analysis of this case, I show how common institutions of the ius commune acquired specific meanings in the pro-slavery jurisdictions of Benguela and Brazil. I specifically focus on how legal categories of property law shaped the judicial language of free…
Produzindo liberdade, escravidão e normas no Império português
Resenha do livro: PINHEIRO, Fernanda Domingos. Em defesa da liberdade: libertos, coartados e livres de cor nos tribunais do Antigo Regime português (Mariana e Lisboa, 1720-1819). Belo Horizonte: Fino Traço Editora, 2018
Legal Files and Empires
Much has been said on the role of judges, legal officials, and courts in the making of colonial regimes. Nevertheless, historiography lacks specific methodological reflections on lawsuits in the Iberian Empires. In order to raise some methodological issues concerning lawsuits as primary sources, I argue that historians could also engage with legal files by looking at instead of just looking through them. In this sense, I seek to establish a dialo…
Escravos e terras entre posses e títulos
This thesis aims to analyze the social construction of relations between people and things in Brazil between 1835 and 1889. For this purpose, I analyzed 74 legal proceedings that were processed before the Court of Appeals of Rio de Janeiro and which discussed dominion and possession over slaves and land. In the first chapter, I analyze the contours that the legal category of possession acquired in nineteenth-century Brazil. Then I analyze the rol…
Legal Reasoning in a Slave Society (Brazil, 1860–88)
This article analyses arguments used in an 1866 Brazilian freedom suit to highlight a substantive legal perspective. Historians of Brazilian slavery law have given attention to the politics of freedom suits, largely disregarding the role of law in their origins, developments, and outcomes. By looking at legal arguments, we show how law and political views mutually framed each other. We focus on the impact of 19th century legal modernizations in t…
Sujeitos da história, sujeitos de direitos
In this research, I argue that Brazilian slaves, at least since the 1860s, had legal personality. This legal personality was limited and precarious. In the first chapter, I analyze the concept of "legal personality" in Brazilian and Portuguese legal doctrine. In the second chapter, our focus is slaves' right action. Through the analysis of the selected documents, I discuss various aspects of this right: a) slaves' standing; b) the requirement of …
L'histoire devant les tribunaux
Cet article vise à montrer comment l'interprétation jurisprudentielle du crime de réduction à une condition analogue à celle de l'esclave est fortement influencée par la conception chargée d'histoire que s'en font les juges et les juristes devant examiner des cas à la lumière des qualifications prévues par l'article 149 du code pénal brésilien. Cette hypothèse est considérée ici à partir de l'analyse de 107 décisions d'appels instruits dans les t…
O Procedimento De Manutenção De Liberdade No Brasil Oitocentista
No Brasil oitocentista, o significado social do "viver sobre si", ao chegar aos tribunais, era traduzido em termos jurídicos. Assim, conflitos sociais adquiriam uma linguagem jurídica delimitada pela teoria possessória. Porém, apesar do "viver sobre si" ter sido invocado desde pelo menos o século XVIII, a análise de 270 processos evidencia que as ações de manutenção de liberdade surgiram, como procedimento judicial específico, a partir de 1840. T…
Legal Reasoning in a Slave Society (Brazil, 1860–88)
This article analyses arguments used in an 1866 Brazilian freedom suit to highlight a substantive legal perspective. Historians of Brazilian slavery law have given attention to the politics of freedom suits, largely disregarding the role of law in their origins, developments, and outcomes. By looking at legal arguments, we show how law and political views mutually framed each other. We focus on the impact of 19th century legal modernizations in t…
Shared Atlantic legal culture
Through an examination of arguments used in an 1866 freedom suit initiated in Benguela, this article highlights the existence of a shared legal culture in the Lusophone Atlantic. Through in-depth analysis of this case, I show how common institutions of the ius commune acquired specific meanings in the pro-slavery jurisdictions of Benguela and Brazil. I specifically focus on how legal categories of property law shaped the judicial language of free…
O Procedimento De Manutenção De Liberdade No Brasil Oitocentista
No Brasil oitocentista, o significado social do "viver sobre si", ao chegar aos tribunais, era traduzido em termos jurídicos. Assim, conflitos sociais adquiriam uma linguagem jurídica delimitada pela teoria possessória. Porém, apesar do "viver sobre si" ter sido invocado desde pelo menos o século XVIII, a análise de 270 processos evidencia que as ações de manutenção de liberdade surgiram, como procedimento judicial específico, a partir de 1840. T…
Legal Files and Empires
Much has been said on the role of judges, legal officials, and courts in the making of colonial regimes. Nevertheless, historiography lacks specific methodological reflections on lawsuits in the Iberian Empires. In order to raise some methodological issues concerning lawsuits as primary sources, I argue that historians could also engage with legal files by looking at instead of just looking through them. In this sense, I seek to establish a dialo…
To be dependent in the Brazilian Empire
This article examines the arguments used in an 1835 court case filed before the Court of Appeals of Rio de Janeiro. This analysis highlights t hat: a) the considerable number of African slaves and the existence of a shared culture in the South Atlantic had a strong impact on freedmen’s and freedwomen’s experiences of freedom; b) masters resisted freedpersons demands for rights and tried to sust ai n dependency relations; and c) in a context of pr…
O Procedimento De Manutenção De Liberdade No Brasil Oitocentista
No Brasil oitocentista, o significado social do "viver sobre si", ao chegar aos tribunais, era traduzido em termos jurídicos. Assim, conflitos sociais adquiriam uma linguagem jurídica delimitada pela teoria possessória. Porém, apesar do "viver sobre si" ter sido invocado desde pelo menos o século XVIII, a análise de 270 processos evidencia que as ações de manutenção de liberdade surgiram, como procedimento judicial específico, a partir de 1840. T…
Sujeitos da história, sujeitos de direitos
In this research, I argue that Brazilian slaves, at least since the 1860s, had legal personality. This legal personality was limited and precarious. In the first chapter, I analyze the concept of "legal personality" in Brazilian and Portuguese legal doctrine. In the second chapter, our focus is slaves' right action. Through the analysis of the selected documents, I discuss various aspects of this right: a) slaves' standing; b) the requirement of …
L'histoire devant les tribunaux
Cet article vise à montrer comment l'interprétation jurisprudentielle du crime de réduction à une condition analogue à celle de l'esclave est fortement influencée par la conception chargée d'histoire que s'en font les juges et les juristes devant examiner des cas à la lumière des qualifications prévues par l'article 149 du code pénal brésilien. Cette hypothèse est considérée ici à partir de l'analyse de 107 décisions d'appels instruits dans les t…
Escravos e terras entre posses e títulos
This thesis aims to analyze the social construction of relations between people and things in Brazil between 1835 and 1889. For this purpose, I analyzed 74 legal proceedings that were processed before the Court of Appeals of Rio de Janeiro and which discussed dominion and possession over slaves and land. In the first chapter, I analyze the contours that the legal category of possession acquired in nineteenth-century Brazil. Then I analyze the rol…
Legal Reasoning in a Slave Society (Brazil, 1860–88)
This article analyses arguments used in an 1866 Brazilian freedom suit to highlight a substantive legal perspective. Historians of Brazilian slavery law have given attention to the politics of freedom suits, largely disregarding the role of law in their origins, developments, and outcomes. By looking at legal arguments, we show how law and political views mutually framed each other. We focus on the impact of 19th century legal modernizations in t…
Legal Files and Empires
Much has been said on the role of judges, legal officials, and courts in the making of colonial regimes. Nevertheless, historiography lacks specific methodological reflections on lawsuits in the Iberian Empires. In order to raise some methodological issues concerning lawsuits as primary sources, I argue that historians could also engage with legal files by looking at instead of just looking through them. In this sense, I seek to establish a dialo…
To be dependent in the Brazilian Empire
This article examines the arguments used in an 1835 court case filed before the Court of Appeals of Rio de Janeiro. This analysis highlights t hat: a) the considerable number of African slaves and the existence of a shared culture in the South Atlantic had a strong impact on freedmen’s and freedwomen’s experiences of freedom; b) masters resisted freedpersons demands for rights and tried to sust ai n dependency relations; and c) in a context of pr…
Shared Atlantic legal culture
Through an examination of arguments used in an 1866 freedom suit initiated in Benguela, this article highlights the existence of a shared legal culture in the Lusophone Atlantic. Through in-depth analysis of this case, I show how common institutions of the ius commune acquired specific meanings in the pro-slavery jurisdictions of Benguela and Brazil. I specifically focus on how legal categories of property law shaped the judicial language of free…
Produzindo liberdade, escravidão e normas no Império português
Resenha do livro: PINHEIRO, Fernanda Domingos. Em defesa da liberdade: libertos, coartados e livres de cor nos tribunais do Antigo Regime português (Mariana e Lisboa, 1720-1819). Belo Horizonte: Fino Traço Editora, 2018
Témoignage
[video:paes] Mariana Armond Dias Paes est Research Group Leader au Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Frankfurt am Main), autrice de l'article L’histoire devant les tribunaux : la notion d’esclavage contemporain dans les décisions judiciaires brésiliennes publié dans le n° 11 en 2017, dossier "esclavage contemporain"
Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil
African slaves were brought into Brazil as early as 1530, with abolition in 1888. During those three centuries, Brazil received 4,000,000 Africans, over four times as many as any other American destination. Comparatively speaking, Brazil received 40% of the total number of Africans brought to the Americas, while the US received approximately 10%. Due to this huge influx of Africans, today Brazil’s African-descended population is larger than the p…
Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil
Law and History in Angola
Court records are rich primary sources to social historians, and much attention has been paid to these types of documents in different African territories. In most cases only summaries have survived, but in Angola complete proceedings have been preserved. Examining the court case collection available at the Benguela District Court, we discuss its strengths and methodological challenges, and present possible themes for future research. The use of …
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History of Colonial Brazil (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)