In the Land of ‘Advogadomania’: The Representation of the Goan Provisionário in José da Silva Coelho’s Contos Regionais
Luís Pedroso de Lima Cabral de Oliveira
Abstract
A legal concept should not be analysed outside its economic and socio-cultural context – so argues António Manuel Hespanha, one of Portugal’s most respected historians of law. I contend that Hespanha’s line of argument relative to legal concepts is also applicable, mutatis mutandis, to legal agents: the magistrates, advocates, notaries, solicitors and clerks who lived and exercised their professions in a given time and place.
Cabral de Oliveira, Luís. “In the Land of Advogadomania: The Representation of the Goan Provisionário in José da Silva Coelho’s Contos Regionais”. In Colonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese, p. 99-115. University of Wales Press, 2019