Caldelas - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:08:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Caldelas - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Hereditary model of the Lower Minho in the 18th century: Caldelas (Tuy) https://historylab.es/hereditary-model-of-the-lower-minho-in-the-18th-century-caldelas-tuy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hereditary-model-of-the-lower-minho-in-the-18th-century-caldelas-tuy Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/modelo-hereditario-del-bajo-mino-en-el-siglo-xviii-caldelas-tuy/ Statistical table analysing the transmission of wealth through inheritance, highlighting the egalitarianism of testamentary mandates. Caldelas, Galicia, in the 18th century

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]]> The different hereditary models help to understand the different demographic models. In this case, the resource analyses the North Atlantic model through the parish of San Martín in Caldelas (Galicia). In the 18th century, in the low-Miñoto model, we do not find a first-born son empowered through inheritance, but a distribution of improvements that affects women more than men. The author highlights a distribution close to hereditary egalitarianism only modelled by small paternal compensations given in exchange for services rendered and to be rendered (38% of the cases) or foundation masses (33%). Consequently, family, social and demographic dynamics (such as migratory movements) favoured radical egalitarianism in the transmission of property.

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]]> Family strategies of social groups. The case of Caldelas, Galicia (17th century) https://historylab.es/family-strategies-of-social-groups-the-case-of-caldelas-galicia-17th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-strategies-of-social-groups-the-case-of-caldelas-galicia-17th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/estrategias-familiares-de-los-grupos-sociales-el-caso-de-caldelas-galicia-siglo-xvii/ Table of social mobility at the end of the 17th century in Caldelas (Galicia) according to the marriage strategies of the different social groups

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]]> The resource presents marriage strategies and social mobility in the Bajo Miño de Calderas region (Galicia) at the end of the 17th century. The author categorises family dynamics according to the social group to which the contracting members belonged. In this way, the families of the local elite show the most common techniques: marriage alliances linked to consanguinity, strong reproductive capacity and social success. Of the 23 elite families studied, 47% continued to maintain middle or higher status, although a significant number of offspring descended to lower families, 43%, reflecting downward social mobility. For their part, middle families followed the same trends as the upper families, albeit mitigating the impact of upward social destination. These two groups of the affluent fed off each other in social endogamy. Upward mobility was achieved by linking into middle-upper alliances; however, middle-lower marriages were a constant half of social reproduction. Lower families tended to maintain their stratum through social inbreeding relationships, with few but existing examples of upward mobility.

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