Religiosidad popular - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 14:53:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Religiosidad popular - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Typology of the dedications of the confraternities of the province of Valladolid in 1773 https://historylab.es/typology-of-the-dedications-of-the-confraternities-of-the-province-of-valladolid-in-1773/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=typology-of-the-dedications-of-the-confraternities-of-the-province-of-valladolid-in-1773 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/tipologia-de-las-advocaciones-de-las-cofradias-de-la-provincia-de-valladolid-en-1773/ Resource that shows the dedications of the confraternities of the district of Valladolid in 1773, according to their devotional diversity of Saints, Saints, Marian, Christological, Sacramental, of Souls or Mixed that existed in each district of Valladolid

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]]> The Counter-Reformation period, inaugurated by the Council of Trent (1545-1563) in response to the Protestant Reformation, underpinned the public manifestation of Catholicism through popular religiosity: the confraternities. These associations of lay people, although initially of a guild nature, became sacramental, and by the end of the modern period they were the most common. The resource deals with the devotions of the confraternities in the province of Valladolid, by judicial districts, which existed in 1773, the year in which the Enlightenment government was immersed in the development of the Expediente General de Cofradías in order to count them and, if necessary, suppress them. In general terms, devotions to Saints were the most common in the province (26.97%), with the districts of Rueda del Almirante, Simancas and Mayorga standing out as those with the highest rates. The dedications to Christ constituted 23.01% of the total, being more established in quantitative terms in Puebla de Sanabria, Benavente and Palenzuela. The Marian confraternities, promoted by the Catholic Church, accounted for 21.85%, with a more homogeneous distribution throughout the province. Finally, devotions to the Blessed Sacrament (10.61%), the Ánimas (9.92%), Third Orders (0.84%), Mixed (4.27%) and Others (2.53%) completed the popular devotions. The different degree of implantation of the devotional typology by the population centres of Valladolid was conditioned by local affinities to Saints, Patrons or Miracles that took place in the municipalities.

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]]> Evolution of the income of the confraternity of San Roque de Ferrol, 1706-1797 https://historylab.es/evolution-of-the-income-of-the-confraternity-of-san-roque-de-ferrol-1706-1797/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evolution-of-the-income-of-the-confraternity-of-san-roque-de-ferrol-1706-1797 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:07 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/evolucion-de-los-ingresos-de-la-cofradia-de-san-roque-de-ferrol-1706-1797/ Resource showing the evolution of a guild from a guild to a devotional confraternity through income

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]]> During the Modern Age, the confraternities were the most widespread and established associative channel in Spain. Born in the heat of the Middle Ages, the confraternities could have, in their origin, a guild character; a character that would be maintained until the “guild character” and the devotional forms of popular religiosity transformed an association of the aggregated faithful into one of the lay faithful. This step can be concretised in the accounts of the confraternities. The author of the resource exemplifies it with the evolution of the income of the confraternity of San Roque de Ferrol (Galicia) between 1706 and 1797. At the beginning of the century, the guild had an income derived from the economic activity of its members: fishing with 92.8% of the total. In the middle of the century, this figure decreased slightly (87.5%) while income in the form of alms increased (from 4.6% to 8.6%). As the century progressed, the strengthening of devotional forms of religion and the urban growth of the municipality led the confraternity to open up to more social groups; consequently, it lost its guild character and, in the second part of the 18th century, fishing activity became 23% of the income between 1765-1769, and 0% from 1780 onwards. For its part, the quantity and amount of alms increased, making up for the decline in fish, to previously unthinkable levels: 88.4% in 1780 and 82.9% between 1790 and 1797.

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