Fernão Mendes Pinto, um peregrino na sala de aula: o século 16 no Oriente extremo da Peregrinação

Abstract

This research aims to determine the thematic potential of “Pilgrimage”, by Fernando Mendes Pinto, for teaching historyin elementary education in Brazil. Given the invisibility of this literature source in history textbooks (problem also examined here), it intends to introduce teachers and students to voyages and reports of the Portuguese traveler during the so-called great navigation cycle. Consistently, Mendes Pinto and his records are approached from the multitude of themes in his works, whichcombines fields such as History, Anthropology, Religion, and others. Initially, two themes offer possibilities of didactic and pedagogical "inputs" to the teacher who would choose to "work" with the book in their classes: 1 - The Portuguese opening to Asia in the descriptions of the chronicler; 2 - The conventions around the origins of the "first globalization", between the 15th and 16th centuries, registered in the accounts of “Pilgrimage”. The expectation is that the writings of the "pilgrim" could leadto a better understanding of the meanings of the Portuguese voyages, beyond what is traditionally seen in the history content of Colonial Brazil, for example.