Montaña - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 14:54:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Montaña - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Typology of the family in the province of León in the middle of the 18th century https://historylab.es/typology-of-the-family-in-the-province-of-leon-in-the-middle-of-the-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=typology-of-the-family-in-the-province-of-leon-in-the-middle-of-the-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:07 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/tipologia-de-la-familia-en-la-provincia-de-leon-a-mediados-del-siglo-xviii/ Table analysing the different family models in the province of León in the mid-18th century according to factors related to the geographical environment and the socio-economic structure

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]]> The author gives us the structure of the family in the province of León according to the Catastro de la Ensenada (1752-1754). By areas, the rural world, represented by the counties linked to agrarian models, the nuclear family was hegemonic, with values far higher than in the urban world. These values are attenuated in mountain areas for the nuclear model, in contrast with the growth of the solitary household, reaching levels of 22.7%. In the rest of the province, the number of single people was between 15% and 13%, with Cea-Campos standing out for its low number of single people: 6.7%. The extended household, made up of direct family additions to the nuclear household, was the third most widespread typology, but with more modest values. It stood out in the counties and villages with the lowest percentage of nuclear families; similarly, the multiple household, almost absent, had a greater impact in mountainous areas: Ancares (3.3%) and Montaña (6.4%), and was the protagonist of the rural elites as a compensatory family strategy in the distribution of inheritance.

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]]> Inheritance distribution in the province of León in the 18th century https://historylab.es/inheritance-distribution-in-the-province-of-leon-in-the-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=inheritance-distribution-in-the-province-of-leon-in-the-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:07 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/reparto-de-la-herencia-en-la-provincia-de-leon-en-el-siglo-xviii/ Table analysing the distribution of inheritance according to the socio-economic and geographical structure of the province of León in the 18th century. The unequal inheritance in mountain areas stands out

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]]> The distribution of inheritance was one of the main concerns of the testators. During the 18th century in the province of León there was a direct relationship between the socio-economic structural framework and the choice of the inheritance model. The egalitarian distribution in the agrarian areas of Cea-Campos, the Vega del Esla and the Páramo stands out. However, despite having a similar agrarian model, the mountain area had some differences with respect to the rest of the province of León: there was a tendency towards the improvement of the third and fifth (between 36.5% and 42.8%) and the testamentary mandates (30.5%-38.5%) which favoured a first-born son in contrast to the rest of the offspring. The limited arable land in these territories marked the family strategy aimed at guaranteeing the biological reproduction of at least one member of the family, without social descent. Indeed, the possible disintegration of the patrimony would condition the marital choice to lower strata; a downward social mobility that the families wanted to avoid.

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