As transformações culturais na paisagem de Olinda:

Apropriações estudantis da cidade no século XIX

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the cultural transformations in the dominant landscape of Olinda/PE in the first two decades of the 19th century, seeking to verify how members of the Academy of Law made different interventions in the internal and external spaces of the São Bento Monastery. This building, together with a vast architectural complex, is part of the Historic Site listed as a National Monument in 1980. Despite the symbolic charge they currently have, in the past this space had “uses” for housing priests and students and for significant political struggles. With this, we hope to contribute to the discussion of dominant landscapes, thinking about the different human interventions that control and remodel geographic space, starting from literary sources and the Minutes of the Congregation of Lentes of the Academy of Law (1828-1832), available digitally in the Archive CCJ (Legal Sciences Course at the Federal University of Pernambuco).