O direito da terra ignota: o direito manifestado em Canudos conselheirista

Abstract

Understanding the importance of the study in the field of Theory of Law, with the help of Phi losophy and History of Law, this monograph examines the law manifested in the village of Canudos councilor, in the backlands of Bahia, in the legal context of the Republican Govern ment at the end of the century XIX. The research analyses, as a review, the theoretical referen ces – legal and historiographical – that have focused on Canudense non-state law, and proposes, based on the study of the handwritten work of Antônio Conselheiro, an ontology of councilor law according to the doctrine of Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas Christian ethics in accordance with divine natural law.