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Request and approval of the supply of meat to 400 poor people in the city of Zaragoza (1747)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:11 +0000

The City Council of the city of Saragossa receives a request from the Casa de Misericordia of that city to provide 400 poor people with a certain amount of meat for each day. These poor, of both sexes and all ages, help the Casa de Misericordia by working with wool, linen and silk. The request was sent to Ferdinand VI who accepted it on the grounds that it was “for the known benefit of the public cause”.

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The lousy

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:03 +0000

Portrait by Murillo, who, in addition to his great religious compositions, was famous for his popular figures from the streets of Seville. This miserable face of the Golden Age, treated with dramatic light and shade, fascinated 19th-century French Impressionist painters. It is a source, in turn, of the poverty of the cities and the roguish youngsters so often portrayed in literature.

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Trajectory of the children admitted to the Pious Work (1700-1791)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:56 +0000

In the modern age, the children conceived could often not be supported due to the precarious economic conditions of the families, as well as when the marriages lacked a formal and canonical character. In an attempt to prolong their lives, they were usually left at the doors of convents and orphanages. At this juncture, these types of religious centres carried out a social and welfare work that would not be replaced until the creation of state social systems in the 19th century. Parents who did not want to lose contact with their children often left them with a distinctive sign so that they would be able to recognise them in the future. Similarly, when the convent had to take care of the newborn, it needed to hire midwives, some of whom were often the child’s mother. However, the handing over of the child to such religious institutions was by far a guarantee of the child’s survival. As María José Pérez Álvarez states, infant infections caused enormous mortality at this early stage and if they survived, when they were handed over to families to be raised, mortality also lurked because of the deplorable hygienic conditions in which the population lived. Only a minority managed to survive and very few eventually managed to leave such institutions for a stable life.

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Surveillance of sexuality. The prison for adulteresses. Calle de Atocha, 87 (Madrid)

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

The video, 4.33 minutes long, is part of “Madrid, Ciudad de las Mujeres”, a cultural and touristic application where the traces of women in the city of Madrid are recovered http://madridciudaddelasmujeres.es/. As the video recounts, the galleys and hospices of Madrid have, since the beginning of modern times, been a place of reclusion and torture for a whole series of women who did not comply with the established rules. These included poor women, “rogues”, “fortune tellers”, prostitutes and adulteresses. As we entered the 18th century and under enlightened and charitable precepts, the quality and diversity of places of confinement for women diversified, with houses of seclusion and repentance where many women who practised prostitution would end up apart from society and subjected to a regime of beatitudes. Touched, veiled and living under a strict rule that they would only leave to get married or take religious vows. They were also places of confinement for a wide variety of petty crimes such as stealing clothes or vagrancy, and moral offences such as adultery or the highly punishable female adultery. A hospice was founded in the building at Calle de Atocha, 97, in Madrid, which also housed the Colegio de San Nicolás de Bari at the beginning of the 18th century, an institution for women who, “forgetful of their honour or conjugal fidelity, incurred in some crime of impurity”. The video tells the story of some of these condemned women.

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