ABSTRACT
Despite a certain historiographical lust for presenting feudal models for the Brazilian colonial economy or, more recently, seeking the medieval ‘inheritances’ of the culture, most researchers’ consensus is that Brazil did not have a medieval period per se. That being said, Middle Ages are, by no means, unknown to the average Brazilian. This recent surge also resulted in a particularly interesting boom of Brazilian political medievalism and neomedievalism from, at least, 2016 – most likely influenced in no small part by the uses of medieval imagery by Donald J. Trump’s supporters in that year. Instituto Lux Brasil is a non-profit organization who presents itself as heir and defender of a conservative European Christian tradition, and, in an almost contradictory way, as apologists for modern liberal values. Counting among its founders a notorious neo-Nazi historian, the Lux institute promotes a fierce revisionism of Brazilian history, having as one of its main guidelines the defence of military dictatorship, and the 1964 coup.
