Sensibilidades e representações urbanas na transferência da capital de Minas Gerais
This study analyzes the urban representations generated as a consequence of the rupture experienced at the time of the transfer of the capital of Minas Gerais, in the last decade of the 19th century. The construction of a modern city, Belo Horizonte, as the new Capital of Minas Gerais, managed to encapsulate the newly-installed brand of Republican power in Brazil, replacing the old Ouro Preto, seat of Government and indisputable symbol of colonial domain and the administration of the recently-deposed monarchy. The contemporaneous urban images evident in political discourse, in chronicles, newspapers, sundry records and even literary writings are expressive of a new urban sensibility emerging from the process of the Capital's transference. Apparent are feelings and perceptions that oscillate between nostalgia, enchantment and fear caused by the simultaneous actions of the abandonment of one capital city and the invention of another. Many of these images have been incorporated into the urban imagination and still contribute today to the formulations of the identity of both cities - Ouro Preto and Belo Horizonte.
Émile Rouède, o correspondente de Ouro Preto
This article presents a brief analysis focused on the trajectory of Emile Rouede in Brazi, especially during the period in which he was in Minas Gerais. Rouede was a painter, journalist, born in France in 1848 and died in the city of Santos (Sao Paulo, Brazil) in 1908. In Minas Gerais he painted views of the old Curral d'El Rey - demolished for the construction of Belo Horizonte - and wrote about the process of changing the state capital. He was enthusiastic about the Republic and the abolition of slavery. His complex trajectory and plural formation are congruent with an individual who has passed between specialties and technical means apparently distant. The sources used were the fragments of its cultural production in that period.
Commentary: Scholarship as a Way of Life—Character and Virtue in the Age of Big Humanities
From the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, most European scholars considered moral cultivation as the primary purpose of the humanities. The humanities were human not just because they concerned the products of the human mind but also because they transformed scholars and students into better human beings. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the rise of Big Humanities questioned this moral purpose. However, Big Humanities also reemphasized the importance of epistemic virtues for scholarship. The language of epistemic virtues helped scholars create new communities of learning and scholarship. Within these communities, the language of virtues established common standards of collaboration and granted scholars a sense of purpose. Many of these scholars also continued to associate epistemic virtues with moral virtues.