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Godoy y Álvarez de los Ríos y Sánchez Sarzosa, Manuel de

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:04 +0000

In 1792 Manuel Godoy became the first Secretary of the Office, replacing the Count of Aranda, Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea y Ximenez de Urrea. Linked to Enlightenment despotism, he was associated with educational and political reformism. During his career, he played a leading role in the struggle against France in the Convention War, with England as an ally, which ended with the Peace of Basel (1795) in which Spain made concessions to France in order to obtain its return.

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Grammar Schools in Extremadura: establishment and financing (18th century)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:48 +0000

During the Modern Age, the teaching of the middle arts did not follow an organised plan; rather, it was a conglomerate of teaching between the learning of the first letters and the university. This intermediate level included humanities colleges (the forerunners of today’s secondary schools), schools founded by economic societies, teaching in ecclesiastical or noble seminaries, and grammar studies, which could be public or private, conventual or secular. Each centre had autonomy in the design of its curriculum. Of all the medium studies, the most widespread were those of grammar, the aim of which was to learn the classical Latin language. In the province of Extremadura, at the end of the 18th century, there were 66 centres of this type. The centres were established with varying intensity in the districts of Extremadura: Llerena had 17, followed by the districts of Trujillo (14), Alcántara (13), and Badajoz (11). The rest, as a whole, had 5 schools. The author notes that Mérida had approximately 6 centres, a figure which may change in the light of further research. How were the grammar schools financed? Most of them were not endowed from private sources: donations, pious works, testamentary mandates, etc. In the district of Plasencia, which had a smaller proportion of schools, all of them were financed from private sources; the same tendency was found in Trujillo and Badajoz, where endowed schools outnumbered those which were financed only by student fees. In contrast, Alcántara, Llerena, Coria, Cáceres and La Serena had more schools without endowment.

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Taxation of Christians and Moriscos in Ávila (1503-1610)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:25 +0000

In Ávila there are documents that confirm the existence of Mudejars as early as the end of the 12th century, with up to three aljamas in the 15th century. This Moorish minority was the second highest paying minority in the whole of the Crown of Castile after the town of Hornachos in Badajoz. To this situation must be added the tension caused by the long war in Granada at the end of the 15th century, giving the constant feeling that this population was permanently in enemy territory, and even more so after the forced conversion of 1502.
However, this adverse situation, although it led to the emigration of many of them, allowed them to arrive at the beginning of the 16th century, making up 10% of the city’s population, mainly employed in trade and metalwork. Thanks to the information contained in the resource, it can be seen that the Moriscos paid a much higher per capita tax than the Old Christians, mainly because after their conversion they ceased to have a tax regime similar to that of the Old Christians and added several extra burdens that they had to face.

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