Reinas - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:40:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Reinas - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Queen Margaret’s livery expenses (1600-1611) https://historylab.es/queen-margarets-livery-expenses-1600-1611/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=queen-margarets-livery-expenses-1600-1611 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:56 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/gastos-de-la-caballeriza-de-la-reina-margarita-1600-1611/ Resource showing the expenditure of the section in charge of the public representation of Queen Margaret, wife of Philip III: the stables

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]]> From the time of Isabella of Valois, the stables acquired an important place in the royal households, as it was the section responsible for the public representation of the monarch or queen. It became their representative vehicle, and its organisational model evolved from the chivalric and medieval court to the courtly court. In 1599 Margaret of Austria-Styria married Philip III, son of Philip II. From then on, the stables of the new queen played a prominent role within the royal household with a large and specialised department, although less so than that of her royal husband. The resource deals with the expenses of Queen Margaret’s stable between 1600 and 1611, the year of her death. With an approximate expenditure of 17,625,000 maravedies in 1601, the main items were for dresses, carriages, provisions, salaries and ordinary and extraordinary expenses. After this first year, both the budget and expenditure increased, reaching its highest point in 1607. The growth of ordinary expenditure was exponential, while that for medicines and horseshoes remained constant throughout his reign. Salaries also increased in direct proportion to the number of courtiers and servants who staffed the queen’s stables. Extraordinary expenditure was, by its very nature, the one that showed the most ups and downs, decreasing when all the others were increasing.

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]]> The history of women in the Prado Museum. Educational guide https://historylab.es/the-history-of-women-in-the-prado-museum-educational-guide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-history-of-women-in-the-prado-museum-educational-guide Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-historia-de-las-mujeres-en-el-museo-del-prado-guia-didactica/ The Prado Museum's virtual didactic guide to the history of women in Modern Spain

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]]> According to the presentation made by the Museo del Prado itself, the Didactic Guide is based on the need to promote the association of museums and educational institutions to create joint strategies to overcome gender inequalities through a critical approach to the history and theories of art. The project is part of “Didactics 2.0 Museums in Feminine”, a project that is the result of joint work between a team from the Feminist Research Institute of the Complutense University of Madrid, the e-Women Association and the teams from the Museums participating in the project: Museo del Prado, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Museo del Traje and Museo Nacional de Cerámica González Martí. The itineraries prepared by Antonia Fernández Valencia, Marián López Fernández Cao and Asunción Bernárdez Rodal address two basic themes: Women and power and Women’s jobs. According to these authors, although they are clearly related to each other, we can say that they have a profoundly complementary character from a social point of view, since the first one basically includes the works and biographies of women from royal and noble houses, while the second one, even including some examples of women from these groups due to their political activity, focuses essentially on the works of women from the middle and working classes. Both itineraries choose different works that put us in contact with different aspects of women in history and can lead us in turn to different themes of the History of Spain in the Modern Age. They are divided into several blocks: Discourse on motherhood, devotion, power and women’s knowledge; Queens and regents in Hapsburg Spain; Our daily work; Family portraits; and Women with their own name. With a clear methodology in terms of objectives and content, as well as the keys to analysis that are of most interest, in each section there is a section of proposed activities and complementary activities for students. And at the end, a series of appendices are added which deal with aspects related to the portraits, questioning the social situation or abounding in lines of conceptual work which can be expanded on later by resorting to other primary sources or historiography.

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