Proyectiles - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 14:54:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Proyectiles - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Firearms and bladed weapons in domestic interiors in Burgos, 18th century https://historylab.es/firearms-and-bladed-weapons-in-domestic-interiors-in-burgos-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=firearms-and-bladed-weapons-in-domestic-interiors-in-burgos-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:07 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/armas-de-fuego-y-armas-blancas-en-los-interiores-domesticos-en-burgos-siglo-xviii/ Table showing the possession of firearms and edged weapons according to socio-professional category and their valuation and price

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]]> The resource shows the presence of firearms and bladed weapons in the homes of eighteenth-century Burgos. The author, through post-mortem inventories, systematises the number and valuation of these artefacts according to professional categories. Thus, we can see that the households of the bureaucrats and the noble rentiers had the greatest number of firearms, with 77 and 57 respectively, with a total price of 4,878 and 5,941 in reales de vellón. The figures are equally higher in these groups for bladed weapons (119 and 50). In a comparative methodology between firearms and bladed weapons, we observe differences: of all the weapons, the farmers had 80% firearms and 20% bladed weapons. Although they were, in sum, a tiny number (5 weapons), the trend also stood out in another professional category that was widely equipped with firearms: the militia (66.7% compared to 33.3%). In the city as a whole, of the 236 households analysed, the majority had more accessible bladed weapons (54.9%), while firearms accounted for 45.1%.

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