Ofelia Rey Castelao

Ofelia Rey Castelao
University of Santiago de Compostela | USC · Departamento de Historia Medieval y Moderna

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Confirmation is the sacrament to which the Catholic Church gave less importance in the Counter-Reformation by not considering it necessary for salvation and entrusting it only to bishops. This has generated the idea of a general careless in its fulfilment, so in this paper we study the real application of this sacrament in the archdiocese of Santia...
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Reseña de González Sánchez, Carlos Alberto El espíritu de la imagen. Arte y religión en el mundo hispánico de la Contrarreforma, Madrid, Cátedra, 2017, 362 pp., ISBN 978-84-376-3703-7.
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Dans un pays où le roi avait appris à lire et à écrire fort tard, l’accès à la lecture et aux libres ne fut pas chose aisée pour la grande majorité de la population. L’analphabétisme généralisé et l’état désastreux de l’éducation n’ont pas été l’objet de l’attention des pouvoirs civils et religieux. Ces derniers n’ont pas prêté davantage attention...
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Catala Sanz, Jorge Antonio y Urzainqui Sanchez, Sergio (2016) El bandolerismo morisco valenciano (1563-1609) Valencia: Universitat de Valencia, «Biblioteca de Estudios Moriscos», 234 p. ISBN 978-84-16515-92-9
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espanolEstudia el problema de la relacion entre crisis y migraciones desde el punto de vista de las mujeres. Esta reflexion se hace utilizando la informacion disponible para Galicia en el siglo XVIII; este territorio se caracterizaba por una intensa emigracion masculina, con dos variantes: la migracion estacional o de corta duracion a Castilla y la...
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Teresa de Ávila was proclaimed Saint Patron of Spain in 1618, 1627 and 1812, but not for long. Saint James, traditional Saint Patron, won three times. This article explains briefly these three episodes, but it is mostly focused on analyse the interpretation through the biography which has studied the topic. It is about seeing how during the last fe...
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This article develops in three levels: a) the problems of the documentation to study the rural and urban houses in the 18th century; b) the size and the characteristics of the rural houses of the western Galicia; c) the houses of the cities -Santiago de Compostela and Coruña-. A comparison is done between the housings of both areas; those of the no...
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This article weighs the research conducted on the employment of the rural women of the Early Modern Age and published in Spain since 1994. This starting point marks several important changes in the orientation of gender history: the creation of an association and a specialised magazine, the organisation of congresses, the publication of monographic...
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Este articulo es una sintesis de la relacion entre Galicia, una region situada en el Noroeste espanol, y America. Galicia tuvo relacion oficial con America entre 1522 y 1529 a traves de la Casa de la Contratacion abierta en La Coruna. Entre 1529 y 1573 dos puertos podian enviar barcos a Indias. Desde 1764, La Coruna se convirtio en base de los Corr...
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This article is a synthesis that compare rural and urban female cultural levels in the 18th century Spain, taking into account female migratory movements. The author proposes some ways to study the differences in literacy and languages skills knowledge, to observe whether or not women migrations to the cities helped the transmission of ideas and cu...
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Este artículo es un ejercicio de comparación entre las migraciones de franceses a España y de gallegos a Castilla, Andalucía y Portugal a partir de información bibliográfica y de textos contemporáneos, y un análisis de las causas y consecuencias de dos modelos migratorios con gran similitud.
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Los monasterios y conventos masculinos eran, a fines del Antiguo Régimen, los principales propietarios de libros en Galicia. Sus bibliotecas eran las más ricas y en general, estaban bien adaptadas a la predicación, a la meditación y a los deberes religiosos, pero sufrían un fuerte abandono en la primera parte del siglo XIX. En 1835/1836 fueron expr...
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El estudio del comercio de libros y de otros productos de la imprenta durante la Edad Moderna presenta especiales dificultades en ámbitos periféricos como Galicia, ya que generó poca documentación. En este artículo se revisa este problema y se proponen vías alternativas para intentar cubrir esa deficiencia informativa. Se plantean además algunas cu...
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During the second half of the 18th century, labour opportunities for women increased, especially in domestic service but also in handicrafts and the service sector. This created a greater attraction for rural women of working age and it also meant an increase in migration from rural areas to the city. However, in the same period and in places just...
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This article studies the intense conflicts for water that happened in Galicia during the Early Modern Period due to the deficit of irrigation water over summer, and the complex systems of usufruct of water or domestic and agricultural use. In order to know the causes of the conflicts, their chronology, their territorial distribution and the social...
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This article examines the characteristics of female jobs in civil and religious institutions during the 18th and early 19th centuries. It further seeks to evaluate the visible and invisible advantages of these kinds of work in terms of security and compare them with the advantages of work in other sectors. To that end it examines the conditions and...
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Ofelia REV CASTELAO, Working under a roof: female institutional employees in the late years of the Ancien Regime This article examines the characteristics of female jobs in civil and religious institutions during the 18(th) and early 19(th) centuries. It further seeks to evaluate the visible and invisible advantages of these kinds of work in terms...
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This article is a presentation of a report about the forms of propriety and advantage of the lands of collective use, in four spanish zones. We study the Galician example like one of the most characteristics, because the numerous conflicts it brought about. Este artículo es una presentación del informe sobre las formas de propiedad y aprovechamient...
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Els convents femenins tenien una base econòmica rendista i les monges que els ocupaven procedien de grups socials nobles i rics i, majoritàriament, havien entrat al món de la religió sense vocació i per imposició de les seves famílies. En aquell context, era poc obeïda la insistència dels ordes religiosos en la pobresa i que el treball, juntament a...
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In Spain, numerous servants, males and females, lived and served in religious communities of the regular clergy, against all their institutional rules. This situation was for long tolerated. According to the notion that the Church in general and the religious orders had about treatment of servants, those institutions, whether regular or secular, we...
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Analitzar la difusió d’un llibre és una operació metodològica difícil, sobretot quan es tracta d’una obra com El Quijote. En aquest article es plantegen les circumstàncies en les quals es produí la publicació i la seva propagació: les taxes d’alfabetització a inicis del segle XVII i la clientela potencial de l’escrit, l’estat de l’activitat impress...
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La influencia de los modelos clásicos fue enorme durante toda la Edad Moderna y su peso fue decisivo sobre la historiografía barroca, pero, como es lógico, se fue mitigando merced a su paulatina sustitución por otros modelos y a su progresiva inadecuación al tiempo. Los historiadores barrocos se nutrían de los clásicos desde las fases iniciales de...
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The Northwert Spain is a territory of strong masculine emigration during the Modern Age and still more during century XIX. The seasonal or temporary movements towards Castile or Andalusia dominate, but from first half of XVIII, definitive migrations are also stated towards America. These movements affected to married men-mainly in the first model-a...
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Galicia, in Northwest Spain, was a region with a high rate of iliteracy, a reduced book trade and limited and poor private libraries, but it had a lot of ecclesiastical librairies. The University o f Santiago even had its own library at the end ofXVIIIc. thanks to the expropriation of the Jesuits' books, as well as the reform of the programme of st...
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Despite the numerous contrasts that exist between different cities and régions, the studies which have been carried out show that, on the whole, literacy levels measured in terms of signatures progressed slowly but unfailingly without this phenomenon being necessarily linked to the setting up of an academic network.
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Summary This study looks at the different situations of inheritors of both sexes of rural families in the territory of Galicia, Spain, characterized by a traditional agrarian economy, the demographics of overpopulation, the intense emigration, and a homogenous social system in which the key is the survival of the families, not an improvement in liv...

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