CENTÚRIAS - Revista Eletrônica de História

NARRATIVA PARA SANTIFICAÇÃO

2025-03-06T14:33:33-03:00

This article aims to analyze the autobiographical text of Inácio de Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, seeking to emphasize the different mechanisms of identity construction that structure this narrative typology. We seek to reflect on the main topics surrounding the text, relating them to the processes of religious control that marked the Modern Era. We also tried to think about the publication systems of the period, focusing our observations on the various reading pacts and social games that were carried out by autobiographies.

POLITICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN ESAÚ E JACÓ, BY MACHADO DE ASSIS

2025-02-28T10:13:36-03:00

Examining the relationship between literature and politics shows how these two areas are closely linked and influence each other. This work addresses an example of this relationship, based on the work Esau and Jacob, by Machado de Assis, focusing on regimes of monarchy and republic. Based on Sartre's thinking about engaged literature, it examines how Machado's novel stimulates critical reflection on political issues not only of its time, but from a universal perspective. It is intended to demonstrate that literature is one of the main forms of reflection on politics and its consequences (based on research and analysis of theoretical texts by Aristotle, Franscisco de Assis Barbosa, Alfredo Bosi, Antonio Candido and historians, José Murilho de Carvalho and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda), as it reveals the historical, social and cultural conditions of a given time. The importance of Machado's work is confirmed, both for its correlation with historical events in Brazil and for its profound approach to the human soul.

"Glorious heroes who conquered this land": English national identity in the poem The Battle of Brunanburh

2025-05-16T12:27:12-03:00

The Battle of Brunanburh, which took place in 937, is one of the landmarks in the establishment of an English kingdom under the House of Wessex. Recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the battle is the subject of a literary analysis in this article, which seeks to articulate the possible connections between the account of the battle and the construction of English identity in the medieval period, based on the observation of how the author uses rhetoric to foster the notion of values that were inherent to his people. To this end, we begin the text by introducing the poem and the main information we have about it and its context of production, followed by a description of the Battle of Brunanburh and an analysis of its agents, and then discuss the importance of the poem's characterizations for English national identity. Finally, we present our final considerations regarding the construction of identity in Brunanburh based on the transformation of kings and their warriors into heroic figures.

BETWEEN ILLITERACY AND THE 'RETURN OF SENSITIVITY': THE CHALLENGE OF APPROACHING LITERATURE IN HISTORY TEACHING

2025-05-24T17:59:29-03:00

This article aims to problematize the use of Literature as a methodology in History Teaching with the purpose of enabling elements of aesthetic education and assisting in the students' literacy process. This research was motivated by experiences in the classroom, after the Covid-19 pandemic, which generated a period of social isolation and the consequent closure of schools, opting for emergency remote teaching for which teachers and students they were not prepared, which ended up making the “risks” of illiteracy more evident. The methodology used was bibliographic analysis, with the contribution of authors such as João Francisco Duarte Júnior, Dante Augusto Galeffi, Circe Maria Fernandes Bittencourt, Selva Guimarães, among others. We can see that despite the challenges faced in its use, the use of Literature in teaching History makes it possible to go against that order established by Enlightenment thought, the production of knowledge centered on reason without interference from the senses, as it allows exploring the mixed nature of the subject, defended by the philosopher and historian Schiller, which is not only reason, but also sensitivity.