XVI-XVIII - History Lab

List and period of activity od the successive governors of the Kingdom of Aragon (16th-17th centuries)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:20 +0000

The governor of the Kingdom of Aragon was an extremely important political post. He was appointed for life and could delegate his functions. His jurisdiction extended over the whole kingdom and he was responsible, among other things, for public order, the guarantee of royal rights and royalties. It became increasingly important, especially after the court moved to Castile following the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs. The election of the governor had to include his membership of the nobility (cloak and dagger). The end of this political office came with the dismantling of the foral system with the arrival of the Bourbons. The support of a large part of the Crown of Aragon for the Austracist pretender led Philip V to put an end to this type of institution on the basis of a legitimate right of conquest.

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Chronological evolution of convent foundations in Aragon

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:20 +0000

The modern age witnessed an unprecedented expansion of regular convents. Until then, in the Middle Ages, this type of monastery had been limited. However, during the modern age, from the impulse of some regular orders such as the mendicant orders, numerous convents were founded throughout Spain, in which Aragon was no exception. The strength of this impulse is understandable when one considers that at the beginning of modernity there was a proliferation of regeneration movements within Catholicism, such as, for example, the Jesuit order, in addition to the aforementioned strengthening of the mendicant orders. In the same way, the political circumstances required it, since the beginning of the Protestant reform required a greater number of religious to give rise to what was known as the Counter-Reformation, where the regular orders played an important role in the regeneration of the Catholic Church

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Demographic wight and femininity of servants in French cities of the ancient regime

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:20 +0000

Gender studies have burst onto the scene to make up for years of women’s relative absence from historical analysis. Social gender studies allow us to trace patterns of behaviour that influence the genders in their performance in history. In this case, we see the enormous weight of women in French serfdom during the ancien régime. This is mainly due to the fact that women, unlike men, did not tend to be as mobile as men. To this must be added the fact that the burden of children was often left to the mother, who often had to raise them alone due to the high mortality rate among men. The need to maintain the family economy created these networks of dependency, which mainly affected women from the lowest social stratum. In this way, we could also make a class analysis of which spectrum of women was susceptible to servitude. In this case, those who belonged to the privileged social groups tended to have incomes which, in the case of widowhood, allowed them to support themselves.

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Legitimacy and parental status

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:20 +0000

The city of Cadiz underwent an economic transformation during the modern age that turned it into one of the most important cities in Europe. The crossroads of trade routes from the Indies, Africa and Asia turned this great city not only into a commercial emporium, but also into a place marked by the presence of allochthonous people who were integrated into servitude and slavery. The study of the profile of the slave is a task that has been undertaken by social history. This type of study has never ceased to be of interest in order to gain a closer understanding of the networks that operated in the transatlantic empires. In this case, the legal status of the parents of these slaves is shown. This type of testimony is made possible by the scrupulousness with which ecclesiastical documents were used to classify individuals and to obtain information about their life trajectory, a documentation that was promoted above all after the Council of Trent. The testimonies describe the situation of the baptised slave in a city as important as Cadiz. Informal links between the progenitors prevailed, as it was not common for the masters to approve of the union between slaves. When this happened, or when another slave became pregnant, they were usually separated so that they could not meet again. This explains why the descendants often did not know who their father was.

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