ENTRE A HISTÓRIA MEDIEVAL E O DIREITO AGRÁRIO:ASPECTOS DO PROBLEMA DA POSSE E DA PROPRIEDADE NA PROVENÇA MEDIEVAL E NO BRASIL CONTEMPORÂNEO

BETWEEN MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND AGRARIAN LAW: ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM OF POSSESSION AND PROPERTY IN MEDIEVAL PROVENCE AND CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL

Abstract

Our experience and dialogue within the Post-Graduate Program in Agrarian Law at UFG, between 2014 and 2015, provided interesting thoughts about the problems of the medievalist and the legal researcher in dealing with phenomena of possession and property. Notably, we note that both share the concern to deal with the limits of contemporary tools to build an understanding of the experiences of historical subjects, whether in the lordships of Provence in the 13th century or in the traditional communities of Brazil in the 21st century. Based on this concern, this article proposes to outline some possibilities for thinking about those experiences. They are based on the understanding of concepts such as the socialsense of ownership and agrariety. They would prove to be fundamental to overcome the reduction in the diversity of phenomena and experiences of possession and ownership to the perspectives and models of Western modernity.