Tutela y minoría de edad en la Castilla rural: prácticas cotidianas de Antiguo Régimen

Abstract

Among the studies on the ‘life cycle’ the issue of the minority in rural Castile in the evolution of their meaning throughout the modern era deserves a special chapter. In that long life stage without very precise margins, knowledge of the practice of legal guardianship and curatorship of young people is very critical capital to understand within family environments periods. It was not a minor or little problem when it affected all social sectors for long time and universal reasons relating to the protection of the huge number of needy orphans of defense for maintaining their assets and heritage allow survival, their marriage and their ability to thrive and always economic or cultural promotion. The daily life of those stocks depended on the different tutorials performances.