Ciclo familiar - 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 Ciclo familiar - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The age of marriage of women in 18th century Spain. A regional overview https://historylab.es/the-age-of-marriage-of-women-in-18th-century-spain-a-regional-overview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-age-of-marriage-of-women-in-18th-century-spain-a-regional-overview Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-edad-del-matrimonio-de-las-mujeres-en-la-espana-del-siglo-xviii-una-panoramica-regional/ Balance of the age of entry into marriage in the different regions of Spain showing a clear contrast between the north and the south

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]]> In 18th century Spain, women married on average at the age of 23 and men at the age of 25, as corroborated by the Floridablanca Census of 1787. These ages are lower than in Europe, where it was common for women to marry between 25 and 28 and men between 27 and 30. Even so, however, there was a tendency for first marriages to be later than in previous centuries. This trend, however, was not uniform, but seems to have followed a south/north-northwest upward direction, which confirms the existence of an unequal regional reality that we cannot fail to point out. According to Pérez Moreda (1988), in 1787 the first marriages of women in Extremadura were at 21.9 years of age, those in Andalusia at 22.3; those in Valencia at 22.7; those in Castilla La Nueva at 23.4; Castilla la Vieja, 23.7; León, 24.2; Galicia 25.3 and the Basque Country 26.1. Uneven behaviour for which it is not easy to find unicausal explanations. Rather, it is necessary to take into account a variety of factors that to a greater or lesser extent influence marital behaviour: living conditions, work possibilities, economic opportunities, the existence of complementary activities and levels of pluriactivity, the weight of migratory movements, the form of access to resources -and especially to the exploitation of land-, inheritance law, custom, inheritance practices, cultural aspects linked to the medieval past, the logic of family systems, social differences, marital strategies and other mechanisms of social reproduction.

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]]> Servants and the average age of women at marriage in the Crown of Castile in 1787 https://historylab.es/servants-and-the-average-age-of-women-at-marriage-in-the-crown-of-castile-in-1787/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=servants-and-the-average-age-of-women-at-marriage-in-the-crown-of-castile-in-1787 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/criados-y-edad-media-de-la-mujer-al-matrimonio-en-la-corona-de-castilla-en-1787/ Contrasts between North and South Castilian between the number of servants and the age at which women enter into marriage

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]]> The graph shows that among men there was no direct connection between access to marriage and the abandonment of servant work. The three provinces with the highest number of servants (Madrid without the capital, Toledo and Albacete) show how the age of access to marriage is among the lowest in Castile, only surpassed by Ciudad Real, Extremadura, Andalusia and Murcia. The latter had the lowest percentage of servants; a fact that put it in line with the central and northern regions of the peninsula. Of all of them, Galicia, Asturias, León and Burgos stood out for having few servants and a high rate of marriage access (over 24 years of age). The demography, socio-economic structure and life cycles are reflected and differentiated geographically in this graph.

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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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