Ajuares - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 14:53:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Ajuares - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Plan of the house of María Arenas Romero. Lezuza, 1751 https://historylab.es/plan-of-the-house-of-maria-arenas-romero-lezuza-1751/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=plan-of-the-house-of-maria-arenas-romero-lezuza-1751 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:18 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/planta-de-la-vivienda-de-maria-arenas-romero-lezuza-1751/ Plan of a house in Lezuza (Albacete) showing the distribution of the upper and lower floors in 1751

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]]> By studying the house and its distribution by rooms, it is easier to understand the way in which most of the life of the neighbours of the late seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century was spent. It is important to emphasise that the social position and wealth of the owners directly conditioned the location, typology and belongings in their houses. As the author (Hernández, 2016) rightly states: “the house in the Ancien Régime is not a static, closed and immovable entity, but is in permanent construction and interconnected with the world around it”.
The image is a plan of a house in Lezuza (Albacete) of around 107m2 on the ground floor, but most of it is used to house the stables, the hayloft and the courtyard, with just a quarter of the total space reserved for the home and the living quarters in a single body. The separation between the bedrooms and the kitchen consists of an opening, covered only on some occasions with a screen or a door to divide the rooms. The upper floor is left with a space of approximately 27 m2 for the chamber, which used to occupy the upper part of the houses, especially the living area as it is presented here.

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]]> Wedding dowries and down payment https://historylab.es/wedding-dowries-and-down-payment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wedding-dowries-and-down-payment Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:26 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/dotes-y-arras-nupciales/ Everyday life. The image shows a painting depicting the formalisation of a woman's dowry contribution. The work, entitled "The Bride's Dowry", is by José Gallegos y Arnosa.

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]]> The dowry and the arras were two legal institutions that represented the contributions made by the husband and wife to the marriage. The dowry was the estate that the woman took with her when she married, which she received from her parents and which, although it was the wife’s property, would be administered by the husband for the duration of the marriage. It was common, especially in the upper classes, for families to go into debt in order to dowry their daughters in order to provide for their social advancement or to strengthen their social networks. The dowry could be made up of a variety of movable or immovable goods, or even public jobs. This would depend on the social origin of the women, with movable goods being more common in the case of maids, for example, and real estate in the case of women from wealthy families. In all cases, there would have been a trousseau, consisting of furniture, bed and table linen and household goods. The arras, on the other hand, was a donation made by the husband to the wife, which is interpreted as a contribution made for having access to the female body and the rights over the offspring. The work in the image, entitled “The Bride’s Dowry”, by José Gallegos y Arnosa, represents the formalisation of these contributions.

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]]> Typology and value of the pieces in the domestic interiors of Cigales (1749-1758) https://historylab.es/typology-and-value-of-the-pieces-in-the-domestic-interiors-of-cigales-1749-1758/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=typology-and-value-of-the-pieces-in-the-domestic-interiors-of-cigales-1749-1758 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:07 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/tipologia-y-valor-de-las-piezas-en-los-interiores-domesticos-de-cigales-1749-1758/ Table showing the pieces identified inside domestic households in Cigales (Valladolid) between 1749 and 1758

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]]> Thanks to research into the interior of the Castilian home in rural areas, it is possible to examine the qualitative values of this information, both in terms of the use of space with the arrangement of the different objects and the personal relationships established between the different inhabitants of the house, their degree of sociability and intimacy.
An analysis of the Ensenada Cadastre shows that in the town of Cigales in the mid-18th century, the houses were characterised by being distributed in two-storey buildings with well-defined outbuildings, and the precise data on the interior of the houses, their outbuildings and the valuation and description of the objects they contained can be documented through the bodies of property and inventories of available goods.
As can be seen in the table, the furnishings are essentially functional, such as benches, chairs, tables, beds, etc. These records are varied in their typology and size, but show a high degree of multifunctionality in the different rooms of the house. There are also pieces intended to provide light and warmth, such as candelabras, candlesticks, candlesticks and candlesticks. However, the main source of heat was provided by the fire in the kitchen, which was distributed throughout the rest of the rooms by means of braziers and heaters for the beds.

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