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Proofs for the granting of the Title of Knight of the Order of Santiago to Pedro Calderón de la Barca and González de Henao

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

Evidence presented to the Council of Orders by Pedro Calderón de la Barca y González de Henao, a well-known author of the Spanish Golden Age, for the granting of the title of Knight of the Order of Santiago

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File on José Juan de Cadalso Vázquez

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:58 +0000

Record of José de Cadalso Vázquez to enter as a student at the Real Seminario de Nobles de Madrid. Known as a man of letters for writing works such as Cartas Marruecas and Noches Lúgubres, he was a career military man who began his training in the classrooms of the Real Seminario de Nobles de Madrid.

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Cadalso y Vázquez Vizcarra y Andrade, José de

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:42 +0000

Document containing the evidence presented by José de Cadalso y Vázquez to obtain the title of Knight of the Order of Santiago. The author of such well-known literary works as Cartas marruecas and Noches lúgubres, he had a military career, like many descendants of merchant families, which enabled him to apply for honours.

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Genealogy of the Fernández de Moratín family in Madrid (17th-19th century)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000

This genealogy reconstructs the Fernández de Moratín family from their arrival in Madrid from the Lugar de Moratín (Asturias) until the Napoleonic invasion. The silversmith’s work was strongly linked to the surname from the time of their establishment at the Madrid court, and they even became part of the guardhouse of Queen Isabella of Farnese. Subsequently, and in the heat of the socio-political transformations that characterised Spain between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, the family strategies were oriented towards the relationship with intellectual and administrative sectors of the capital, with prominent figures such as the writer Leandro Fernández de Moratín and the politician Gumersindo Fernández de Moratín, cousin of the former, among others.

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Percentage of unmarried women in England (1536-1741)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:31 +0000

The evolution of unmarried women in England is explained by the trades they performed. In the English case, the spinner’s trade was associated with female spinsterhood, which reached its peak during the 17th century. Thus, in a context where the formation of marriage was seen as the goal of any woman, the work of the spinner, associated with spinsterhood, began to have negative considerations, thus creating a stereotype of the woman who carried out this activity.

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Motherhood throughout history

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:41 +0000

The video is part of the Research Group on Literary Sources for the History of Women of the Complutense University of Madrid, accessible from the web of didactic/divulgative resources on the History of women and gender relations in Spain, and deals with motherhood throughout History from an interdisciplinary perspective through the interventions of prestigious specialists such as Gloria Franco Rubio, Pilar Díaz Sánchez, Cristina Segura Graiño, María Jesús Fuente Pérez and María Soledad Arredondo Sirodey. With a duration of 23 minutes, the aim is to bring this type of research on cross-cutting issues such as motherhood to students, teachers at different levels of education and the general public. For other videos of the research group see the website https://www.ucm.es/historiamujeresgeneroesp/

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Cervantes and 17th century Madrid

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:35 +0000

Interactive viewer which, based on Pedro Texeira’s map of 1656 – the most detailed, meticulous and extensive of its time – allows you to explore the Madrid of the 17th century, where Miguel de Cervantes and other characters of the Golden Age lived. It is a map with different layers of information superimposed on the current map of Madrid, with different options (white background, street map, image), with the possibility of marking areas and points of interest, obtaining images or locating the houses of characters of the period (Cervantes, Velázquez, Lope de Vega, Góngora, Calderón de la Barca, Quevedo, Tirso de Molina…). Also parishes, convents, hospitals, fountains, parks, streets, squares, orchards and landscapes, city gates, the Royal Palace and other buildings of the nobility (Duke of Osuna, Maqueda, Pastrana…), among other information. By clicking on it, for each of the points indicated, a brief description of the place, the building, the spot, the personage, etc. is given, as well as a list of the references or bibliography from which this information has been obtained.

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