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Os tempos conjunturais de 1745 a 1818 são, tal como a vida e actuação de António Ribeiro dos Santos, diversificados e dissonantes. Qual o problema de fundo deste artigo? Tentar retraçar e compreender as linhas de um desenho, de componente biográfico-intelectual, em que as cores da paleta do barroco atlântico-joanino paulatina mas persistentemente se tornam mutáveis em luzes enciclopédicas e europeias. O Reino estendia-se em paisagens de senhorios e concelhos, pontuadas por uma rede crescente de espaços urbanos em extensões de império atlântico e olhadas intermitentes ou dependentes da Europa. Os poderes do rei afirmavam-se, mas limitavam-se com o crescimento das estruturas da administração e das justiças. Um instituto jurídico, que se ia tornando distinto, ganhava e afirmava-se sob a designação de Estado. Os privilégios e excepções sentiam o crescimento do Estado, que vivia das leis, perante as quais, cada vez mais, todos se queriam iguais. Nas paisagens, sujeitos àqueles poderes, viviam vassalos. Vassalos que eram uma das preocupações da época.
The figure of Antonio Ribeiro dos Santos (1745-1818) may be studied not merely as a direct influence in the reshaping of the Portuguese State and its Atlantic/imperial possessions but his work as an embodiment/reflection of a wider European enlightenment critique of the existing structures of power. All of this may be seen in the creation of administrative and legal institutions, that while emerging from and dependent on the continuation of regal authority, also extend the role of the State as such in diminishing/removing the customary privileges and exceptions of the landowning classes. This has the effect of moving towards a greater social parity and equality before the law, and the eventual modification of the earlier state of vassalage in a distinctive Portuguese response to the era of the American and French revolutions.
The figure of Antonio Ribeiro dos Santos (1745-1818) may be studied not merely as a direct influence in the reshaping of the Portuguese State and its Atlantic/imperial possessions but his work as an embodiment/reflection of a wider European enlightenment critique of the existing structures of power. All of this may be seen in the creation of administrative and legal institutions, that while emerging from and dependent on the continuation of regal authority, also extend the role of the State as such in diminishing/removing the customary privileges and exceptions of the landowning classes. This has the effect of moving towards a greater social parity and equality before the law, and the eventual modification of the earlier state of vassalage in a distinctive Portuguese response to the era of the American and French revolutions.