Abstract

SANCHEZ CORAL, RAMIRO ALONSO. Food Consumption at the Colegio and Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, 1733-1755. Front. hist. [online]. 2021, vol.26, n.2, pp.284-312.  Epub July 01, 2021. ISSN 2027-4688.  https://doi.org/10.22380/20274688.1145.

The main objective of this article is to study some aspects of food consumption at the Colegio y Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino in Santafé, between 1733-1737 and 1751-1755. This work aims to analyze both the information related to the food consumption and the food purchased that was registered in the Institution's expense book. The study presents two significant findings for the study of consumption and daily life in the Nuevo Reino de Granada.

The first one, about the composition of food expenditure registered in the accounting books of a religious educational community; the second one, that the frequency and consumption of some specific products did not depend only on the possibilities of the market, but also on the institutional cultural context, where one of the most important aspects was the religious belief framework of the Order of Preachers (Dominican Order).

Keywords : consumo de alimentos; Nuevo Reino de Granada; Santafé; siglo XVIII; Colegio Mayor de Santo Tomás; Orden de Predicadores; food consumption; Nuevo Reino de Granada; Santafé; 18th Century; Colegio and Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino; Dominican Order.

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