Homens de espada e de bala: um estudo comparativo entre The Gest of Robin Hood (séc. XIV) e a literatura de folhetos nordestinos primeira metade do século XX

Abstract

This dissertation aims to aggregate and articulate an investigation of power as a historical object, influencing narratives and collective memory. We propose an analysis of how individuals in peasant societies organized themselves, related to each other, resisted, and negotiated social, economic, and political orders. By delving into the works of English medieval troubadours during the 13th and 14th centuries and the pamphlet literature of the first half of the 20th century, we seek to observe how these poems allow us to establish differences between social groups through the representation of charismatic heroes in situations where outlaw life was written as a consequence of social disorders, justified as a way of maintaining traditions. In this sense, Social Banditry, as an endemic phenomenon of peasant societies, will be analyzed based on the relationship between the process of territory occupation and the mechanisms of domination present in peasant societies. In a comparative exercise, the process of territorialization will be analyzed in the documents to understand how the stories of outlaw heroes express the relationship between peasants and manor lords in different historical times. Through the comparative method proposed by Marcel Detienne (2000), we intend to establish the process of territorialization as a conceptual core from which it is possible to understand a configuration of thought that exposes class conflicts within agrarian societies.