Hierarchy and order: organization of the body portuguese five hundred in two different spaces

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the social organization model adopted by the sixteenth-century Portuguese man. In this sense, to the king to the simplest mechanical officer, we consider the concepts of hierarchy and order present in this society. Political-theological understanding arising from the idea of a self-regulating cosmos of social life, able to manage the social life, we see the foundations of this provision in two dimensions of the Portuguese Empire, Portugal, home of that empire, and America, one of its colonies. It is intended, therefore, understand the similarities and differences between them being Portuguese in different spatiality from the study of a series of everyday practices that brig these experiences of the body politic portuguese.