Religious men in arms: the riot of the Augustinians of the East India Congregation (Goa, 1638)

ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the movement of independence and autonomy of the East India Congregation and the attempt of rupture with the Mother House of the Portuguese Augustinian Province in the year 1638. The use of weapons by religious men highlighted the violence of the upheaval. The decade of 1630 corresponded to years of tensions for the Augustinians of the East, with repercussions in the centers of royal and ecclesiastical powers in Goa, Lisbon, Madrid and Rome. The reading of a codex with extensive documentation, generated within the bureaucracy of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide in Rome is the starting point, in addition to a set of missives between the viceroyalty of the Estado da Índia and Madrid. The approach unfolds in three segments: the Augustinian missionary activity in the East, the imperial conjunctures of the 1630s and the Augustinian institutions in Goa, and the June 1638 uprising.

摘要 本文分析了1638年东印度修会（East India Congregation）的独立自治运动及其与葡萄牙奥古斯丁省母院决裂的尝试。宗教人士动用武器的行为，凸显了这场动乱的暴力色彩。1630年代是东印度奥古斯丁会士处境紧张的十年，其影响波及果阿、里斯本、马德里与罗马的王室与教会权力中枢。本研究以罗马传信部（Congregation of Propaganda Fide）官僚体系内生成的、收录大量文献的抄本为核心史料，辅以葡属印度总督辖区（Estado da Índia）与马德里之间的一系列往来信函。论述分为三个板块：东印度地区的奥古斯丁传教活动、1630年代的帝国局势与果阿的奥古斯丁会机构，以及1638年6月的动乱。