Mentalidad - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:08:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Mentalidad - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The parish as a central space of social life https://historylab.es/the-parish-as-a-central-space-of-social-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-parish-as-a-central-space-of-social-life Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:18 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-parroquia-como-espacio-central-de-la-vida-social/ Resource showing the municipal representation highlighting the Church as a central element, reflecting the religious mentality expressed in local symbols

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]]> Once the Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula for Catholicism was over, new churches and parishes were founded, some where there was already a mosque, others in the central areas of the new population centres that arose. This process of parochialisation had the greatest impact on the configuration of the new Christian society. In the Modern Age, rural communities had the parish as their geographical and social centre, a space that reflected, on the one hand, the political and religious order and, on the other hand, the central point from which to orientate themselves: being in the world. The drawings shown are examples that the author of the resource proposes as forms of representation of the local community, that is, of the very conception of space in the form of churches. Gójar and Calicasas (Granada) were depicted in the Ensenada Cadastre (1753-1754) in the same way that Tomás López, as early as 1786-1789, received a sketch for his Relaciones Geográficas: a church surrounded by houses which, like satellites, mark the form of the structure of the space of the municipality or place. All this reflects the prevailing profound mentality of modernity, which imprinted its everyday values on society.

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]]> Evolution of the income of the confraternity of San Roque de Ferrol, 1706-1797 https://historylab.es/evolution-of-the-income-of-the-confraternity-of-san-roque-de-ferrol-1706-1797/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evolution-of-the-income-of-the-confraternity-of-san-roque-de-ferrol-1706-1797 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:07 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/evolucion-de-los-ingresos-de-la-cofradia-de-san-roque-de-ferrol-1706-1797/ Resource showing the evolution of a guild from a guild to a devotional confraternity through income

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]]> During the Modern Age, the confraternities were the most widespread and established associative channel in Spain. Born in the heat of the Middle Ages, the confraternities could have, in their origin, a guild character; a character that would be maintained until the “guild character” and the devotional forms of popular religiosity transformed an association of the aggregated faithful into one of the lay faithful. This step can be concretised in the accounts of the confraternities. The author of the resource exemplifies it with the evolution of the income of the confraternity of San Roque de Ferrol (Galicia) between 1706 and 1797. At the beginning of the century, the guild had an income derived from the economic activity of its members: fishing with 92.8% of the total. In the middle of the century, this figure decreased slightly (87.5%) while income in the form of alms increased (from 4.6% to 8.6%). As the century progressed, the strengthening of devotional forms of religion and the urban growth of the municipality led the confraternity to open up to more social groups; consequently, it lost its guild character and, in the second part of the 18th century, fishing activity became 23% of the income between 1765-1769, and 0% from 1780 onwards. For its part, the quantity and amount of alms increased, making up for the decline in fish, to previously unthinkable levels: 88.4% in 1780 and 82.9% between 1790 and 1797.

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]]> The amount of inheritances destined for religious purposes. Sahagún and the city of León in the 18th century https://historylab.es/the-amount-of-inheritances-destined-for-religious-purposes-sahagun-and-the-city-of-leon-in-the-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-amount-of-inheritances-destined-for-religious-purposes-sahagun-and-the-city-of-leon-in-the-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/cantidad-de-las-herencias-destinadas-a-la-religiosidad-sahagun-y-la-ciudad-de-leon-en-el-siglo-xviii/ Amount destined to the salvation of the soul in wills as a reflection of religiosity in the urban world of the city of León and in the rural world of Sahagún

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]]> Resource oriented to the analysis of the expenses that were made, within the wills, for the burial, funeral and the salvation of the soul of the deceased. These items came out of the fifth of free disposal. The author investigates these deductions by means of the percentage that these expenses represented with respect to the inheritance received by their children. At first, it is noticed that the higher the legitimate, the lower the funeral expenses would be in relation to it. The group of merchants and financiers in the city of León showed the average legitimate per child to be 134,295 reales, with the average funeral expenses being 5,530 (1%). This figure was 1.8% for the administrative and liberal professions bourgeoisie. Finally, the peasantry, with the amount of legitimate patrimony they had at their disposal, the deduction for religiosity was 10%. Thus, the most precarious family economies saw how these expenses affected to a greater extent their capacity for social reproduction and the forging of new family nuclei.

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