alimentación - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 14:58:21 +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 alimentación - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Still life with figures https://historylab.es/still-life-with-figures/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=still-life-with-figures Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:14 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/bodegon-con-figuras/ Still life around food, depicting Spanish costumbrismo in the 17th century

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]]> This genre of decorative paintings for domestic settings, with market scenes, kitchens and other settings with still lifes and figures, was intended to provoke laughter in the viewer through the physical qualities of the shopkeepers or through moral defects such as gluttony. Thus, their function had a moralising significance, alluding to sayings or commonplaces known to the people of the time. Despite the rudeness of these still lifes, Baroque-era creations contain a polysemy that made them complex even at that time, such as the fact that the painting is written in Latin, which shows that they were intended for a specific public due to the level of erudition shown. Thanks to this type of work, clues can be sought in the study of food or clothing and, through this, of the social types existing at the time. On the right is a gentleman holding an open melon, dressed in the typical court costume of the courtly sphere.

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]]> Craftsmen. Individuals and rents in Ecija in the mid-18th century https://historylab.es/craftsmen-individuals-and-rents-in-ecija-in-the-mid-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=craftsmen-individuals-and-rents-in-ecija-in-the-mid-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:57 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/artesanado-individuos-y-rentas-en-ecija-a-mediados-del-siglo-xviii/ Craft production in the town of Ecija in the 18th century

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]]> The growth of Ecija led it to become a town of second rank within the southern urban network, serving as a connecting element between the large cities and the rural areas. Despite the importance of the agricultural sector, where craftsmen were involved in the processing of cotton introduced at the beginning of the 18th century in the market gardens, the craftsmen made up an important group divided into nine sectors. In order to determine the overall data, the table shows the total income of each sector, taking into account the annual salaries at a rate of 120 days per year, the yield of the artisans’ shops (if any) and the machinery (mills, ovens, fulling mills, presses…). The largest contingent is that of workers in the textile sector, which represents 32.05%, followed by extractive works with 19.64% and tanneries with 12.13%. These three sub-sectors account for two thirds of the workers, although their labour importance does not exactly correspond to their contribution to the sector’s income. Despite the high level reached by the textile industry in the 17th century, during the 18th century it experienced a certain decline. During the 17th century, due to competition from foreign cloth, the textile manufactures in cities such as Seville and Cordoba moved to rural areas, free of guild restrictions, which meant that contracting conditions were freer. From the first decades of the 18th century, urban industries were reactivated thanks to the regenerated Indian trade.

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