Demografía urbana del Antiguo Régimen en Galicia: la ciudad de Santiago de Compostela

Abstract

Synthesis of the doctoral thesis about the population from Santiago de Compostela between the first half of the Seventeenth-century and the second half of the Nineteenth-century. The sources and the method used are the French Demographic History School ones. We deal with the always important family's reconstruction made by an alphabetic approach of surnames spread to the whole of the city. It is remarkable that we have always tried to focus on the sociodifferential behavious. The results reveal the typical features of an urban population -mainly, hyperfertility and hypermortality-, but also its relationship with a rural environment caracterized by moderate values. Moreover, the sociodifferential test has revealed the existance of considerable differences, although they are not too mark, as it surely corresponds to a town with a rather modest size.