Dr. Anna Clara Lehmann Martins

Researcher

Main Focus

  • The Council of Trent and Brazilian ecclesiastical administration during the 19th Century
  • The Holy See and Ibero-American systems of patronato/padroado régio
  • Circulation and control of legal knowledge and decisions among the Holy See, bishops and jurists from Ibero-America
  • History of canon law in relation with other legal systems in Late Modernity

Joint Project

Completed Projects

Curriculum Vitae

2021-present.
Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

2017-2021.
Doctor of Law, and Doctor of Modern and Contemporary History (cotutelle). Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Law), Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil; Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (History), Münster, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (formerly Max Planck Institute for European Legal History), Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 100 / Summa cum laude. 
Thesis: The Fabric of the Ordinary: The Council of Trent and the Governance of the Catholic Church in the Empire of Brazil (1840-1889)

2015.
Visiting Researcher.University of Milan, section of Medieval and Modern Legal History.

2014-2015.
Master of Laws.Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis (SC), Brazil.

Dissertation: “Usos e reflexos de Agostinho em Hincmar de Reims: A lei temporal e o papel jurídico do rei em De Regis Persona et Regio Ministerio”.

Scholarship from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).

2009-2013.
Bachelor of Laws.Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria (RS), Brazil.

 

Other

Also a Research Member of:

  • STUDIUM IURIS – Grupo de Pesquisa em História da Cultura Jurídica, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil
  • IUS COMMUNE – Grupo de Pesquisa em História da Cultura Jurídica, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis (SC), Brazil
  • MERIDIANUM – Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos Medievais, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis (SC), Brazil
  • NUDI – Núcleo de Direito Informacional, at the Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria (RS), Brazil

Publications (Selection)

Martins, A. C. L.: Multinormativity Emerges From Multilevel Governance. Uses of the Council of Trent in Examinations for Ecclesiastical Benefices in 19th-Century Brazil. Administory 5 (2020) (1), pp. 96 - 115 (2020)
Albani, B.; Martins, A. C. L.: The Governance of the Church written between National and Global Perspectives: The Presence of Congregations of Cardinals in Brazilian Manuals of Ecclesiastical Law (1853-1887). Almanack 1 (26), pp. 1 - 78 (2020)
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