Reino de Córdoba - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:51:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Reino de Córdoba - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The plague in the Kingdom of Cordoba in the 17th century https://historylab.es/the-plague-in-the-kingdom-of-cordoba-in-the-17th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-plague-in-the-kingdom-of-cordoba-in-the-17th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:18 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-peste-en-el-reino-de-cordoba-durante-el-siglo-xvii/ Map showing the distribution of plague in the former Kingdom of Cordoba during the 17th century

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]]> The Kingdom of Cordoba was one of the territories involved in the great plague epidemics that devastated the Iberian Peninsula during the 17th century. The resource lists the localities affected, using the 1761 map drawn up by Tomás López. In red are the epidemic outbreaks that occurred in the two-year period 1649-1650. Originating in the ports of Cadiz and the cities of Seville, Malaga, Antequera and Murcia, the epidemic reached the city of Cordoba with virulence and affected the municipalities located in the north of the kingdom and some areas in the south. Years later, and represented in blue dots, another plague epidemic broke out, which had a greater incidence in the south and, once again, in the city of Cordoba itself. How did the kingdom’s authorities deal with the epidemics? Isolation and the closure of communications were the best way to prevent the plague from spreading further; however, the absence of a centralised entity to control and delimit the vast territories resulted in the permeability of municipal borders. At the local level, the Board of Health decreed the measures to be implemented: food stockpiling, closure of trade, limitation of foreign trade and promotion of hygiene were the most widespread formulas.

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]]> Geographical origin of the seminarians of San Pelagio (Cordoba, 17th century) https://historylab.es/geographical-origin-of-the-seminarians-of-san-pelagio-cordoba-17th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=geographical-origin-of-the-seminarians-of-san-pelagio-cordoba-17th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:48 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/procedencia-geografica-de-los-seminaristas-de-san-pelagio-cordoba-siglo-xvii/ Resource showing the origin of the students of the Seminary of San Pelagio in Cordoba between 1600 and 1699, a seminary created in the heat of the Council of Trent and not exempt from conflict due to economic and institutional interests

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]]> Session XXIII of the Council of Trent (1545-1563) agreed to the creation of centres dedicated exclusively to priestly formation. The centres were to be controlled by the bishops of each diocese and the financial endowment was to come from episcopal and capitular revenues. The loss of income on the part of the diocesan councils, and the opposition of the existing colleges and universities that also trained the clergy, meant that the new seminaries were only slightly established. In the case of the diocese of Cordoba, the Seminary of San Pelagio was established between 1583 and 1600. Where did the new seminarians come from? Of the 352 students that the institution had in the 17th century, the vast majority, 315, were born in the diocese and province of Cordoba (89.49%), followed by the towns also belonging to the bishopric of Cordoba, but not to the civil province (23, 6.54%). A further 13 pupils (3.69%) were born in neither the jurisdiction of the bishopric nor the civil province of Cordoba, and only 1 pupil (0.28%) was from a town in the province, but whose ecclesiastical jurisdiction differed. By origin, the vast majority came from rural areas (294 pupils, 86.73%), and 13.27% were from the city of Cordoba. The author notes that, although the capital of Córdoba accounted for 13.27% of the total, the 45 pupils from that city constituted the largest number of pupils from the same nucleus, followed by rural areas such as Castro del Río (21) and Pozoblanco (18).

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