Criados de servicio - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 14:20:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Criados de servicio - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Family and servants of a young farmer from Villarrobledo in 1753 https://historylab.es/family-and-servants-of-a-young-farmer-from-villarrobledo-in-1753/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-and-servants-of-a-young-farmer-from-villarrobledo-in-1753 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:16 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/familia-y-criados-de-un-joven-labrador-de-villarrobledo-en-1753/ Young farmer's family with dependent servants

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]]> In many occasions during the Modern Age servants were young and orphans. These situations made them completely dependent on their masters. Moreover, the work of the servants was often oriented according to their gender. The document shown here is an example of both. Juan Tomás Morcillo y Argumanes, of the general state and farmer, aged 36, married, has Francisca Gómez, single, aged 17 and an orphan, as his servant. He also has a labour servant: Juan Montejano, single, 20 years old. Gender roles are clearly shown by the fact that the woman is dedicated to service and care work and the man to farm work. Gender roles were not only reproduced by farmers, as in this case, but other social groups also showed the same behaviour towards servants.

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