Propietarios - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:15:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Propietarios - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Ground floor of the house of Don Pedro de Astrearena, Marquis of Murillo, 1746 https://historylab.es/ground-floor-of-the-house-of-don-pedro-de-astrearena-marquis-of-murillo-1746/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ground-floor-of-the-house-of-don-pedro-de-astrearena-marquis-of-murillo-1746 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:18 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/planta-baja-de-la-casa-de-don-pedro-de-astrearena-marques-de-murillo-ano-1746/ Plan showing the division by tenant and guest rooms in the house of Don Pedro de Astrearena in 1746

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]]> The dwelling constitutes the main space for families in the Modern Period, both in terms of the ways of life and distribution of people within the houses and during their own cohabitation. These living relationships show great differences between urban and rural spaces, and this study therefore focuses on the inhabitants of Madrid as the capital of the Monarchy and seat of the Cortes during the 18th and early 19th centuries. The article analyses the de facto relationship between the owners of a property and the increasingly common tenants, who were not part of the family unit to which they had been accustomed until then. According to the research of the Planimetría General de Madrid, it is discovered that in the middle of the 18th century, 35% of the properties destined for housing in Madrid belonged to the Church and 11% to the nobility.
In terms of cohabitation, which is the object of study here, two types of owners can be distinguished in Madrid. On the one hand, there were those who lived in a house to live exclusively with their families, while on the other hand, there were individuals who established their habitual residence in houses with a characteristic architectural layout that allowed them to be inhabited by several families, who would then live directly with the owner. In large buildings, even large-scale restructuring of the space was carried out, as in the case in point, in which Don Pedro de Astreana sent his reform project to the Madrid City Council in 1746. The aim of this plan was to create up to ten separate rooms that would serve as living quarters for several people or family groups. In this situation, complete family nuclei would be established that would have nothing to do with those in the adjoining rooms.

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]]> Social distribution of exploited land in northern Spain (18th century) https://historylab.es/social-distribution-of-exploited-land-in-northern-spain-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=social-distribution-of-exploited-land-in-northern-spain-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/distribucion-social-de-la-tierra-explotada-en-la-espana-septentrional-siglo-xviii/ Resource showing the differences in land ownership between the coastal and inland areas of northern Spain

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]]> Land ownership was one of the factors that made the Ancien Régime an unequal system, a reflection of the estates’ society. In the mid-18th century, northern Spain was no stranger to these issues. The resource addresses the differences in land tenure according to whether they were coastal or inland areas, in an exercise in comparative methodology. The author identifies two distinct models of social stratification in the coastal provinces: the first is based on a smallholding society where average holdings are between one and one and a half hectares, meaning that 60% of the peasants did not reach the minimum subsistence level, while the top 15% of holdings controlled between 40 and 50% of the land. The second coastal model was the one located in the transition zone between the coast and the interior, where the degree of smallholdings was greater but, again, insufficient, and where secondary economic activities had to be carried out for subsistence: livestock farming.

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]]> Type of landholding and age of the head of the family in the Sierra de Alcaraz (Albacete) in 1753 https://historylab.es/type-of-landholding-and-age-of-the-head-of-the-family-in-the-sierra-de-alcaraz-albacete-in-1753/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=type-of-landholding-and-age-of-the-head-of-the-family-in-the-sierra-de-alcaraz-albacete-in-1753 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:33 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/tipo-de-hacienda-y-edad-del-cabeza-de-familia-en-la-sierra-de-alcaraz-albacete-en-1753/ Heritage and life cycle in land ownership and work in the Sierra de Alcaraz (Albacete), highlighting the unequal distribution of land and the children's care work for their parents.

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]]> In the Sierra del Alcaraz area of the 18th century, property was unequally distributed among the number of owners. The inequality between large and small landowners was also affected by another factor: age. Ownership and the life cycle of the individual are intimately linked in the family environment: while the parents acquire land, the children work on it as helpers. When they reach the age of 35 to 55, the stage of greatest accumulation of property takes place; their parents, already in the final years of their lives, give them the land so that they can perpetuate themselves in the family. However, until the time of their death, those over 55 years of age will continue to concentrate their wealth. Of the owners over this age, 25.7% are counted as medium-sized owners, compared with 23.4% who had no real estate, a not insignificant figure, which only increases from the age of 65 onwards with 35.5%. This trend in medium-sized property ownership contrasts with the dynamics of small and large estates. Thus, among small property owners, those between 35 and 44 years of age stand out most, and large property owners between 45 and 54 years of age.

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