Em nome do pai, do filho e do poder joanino: Portugal e a Santa Sé na primeira metade do século XVIII

Abstract

This thesis aims at analyzing political and diplomatic relations between Portugal and the Holy See in the first half of the eighteenth century, in whide the main problem was the interruption of diplomatic relations between the two courts - that occurred between 1728-1731. The episode resulted at first from the refusal to grant parity in Rome to Portugal before other European courts, denying the rise of the apostolic nuncio Vicente Bichi, to the title of cardinal. This policy was part of a traditional diplomatic language, to which Rome remained the center of Christianity and distributor of privileges. The choice of D. John V to remain faithful to a traditional language did not prevent him from appropriating and using modern language, an expression shared by the seventeenth century loci of power, represented by monarchies which were consolidated - France, England, Austria, Prussia and even in Russia, operating from a state of reason, modern diplomatic language, which set up the European political chessboard between the congress of Vienna and Utrecht. This language was translated by ambassadors or Portuguese, heads of mission allowing Portugal's participation in major decisions of the period and consolidated political privilege of D. John V, consecrating the monarch The Most Faithful and hence the Portuguese kingdom in a changing Europe.