Burgueses - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:25:29 +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 Burgueses - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The money changer and his wife https://historylab.es/the-money-changer-and-his-wife/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-money-changer-and-his-wife Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:26 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-cambista-y-su-mujer/ Representation of women's activities in the world of work and economy through the brush of Marinus van Reymerswale

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]]> In the new bourgeois societies, women were a fundamental support for their husbands in the task of collecting and accumulating money. They took part in the accounting of their husbands’ businesses and, in many cases, were in demand as accountants by merchant houses, accustomed as they were to the control of account books. Bourgeois women, without forgetting their role as mothers and wives, developed an economic-administrative activity acting on behalf of their husbands, but also when they were widowed or took over the inheritance of a prematurely deceased father. They handled rents and lent money in a historical phase in which money was an instrument for the accumulation of wealth.

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]]> The birth of the modern state in 15 minutes https://historylab.es/the-birth-of-the-modern-state-in-15-minutes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-birth-of-the-modern-state-in-15-minutes Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:16 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-nacimiento-del-estado-moderno-en-15-minutos/ Educational video on the origins of the modern state

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]]> In this 15-minute educational video produced by Academia Play, the Visual Thinking technique is used to explain the birth of the Modern State between the 15th and 16th centuries. Its background and changes. The description of the video explains that “The Modern State emerged between the 15th and 16th centuries, when kings took advantage of the crisis of feudalism to regain their power, and its process of emergence accelerated in the Renaissance, with profound transformations in the mechanisms of government and in the exercise of power”

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