Spanish Medieval Literature: An Overview

Posted on Oct 6, 2024 in Latin

A monastery is a place inhabited by one or more monks. Originally a monastery was the cell of a hermit or anchorite. Christian monasteries are also called abbeys or priories, (governed by a prior). In the monastery had the chapter house, cemetery, library, vestibule, vestry, cloister .. The Courtesy Mester was born into the Court, in the royal audiencia, and always used the form of prose for legal and court areas, with the intention of being noble and educational policies that would thrive in the harsh conditions of the Spanish Middle Ages revolt; respond to this intention the numerous compilations of short stories, historical works and the various writings of Don Juan Manuel Miracles of Our Lady is the work of Gonzalo de Berceo capital, is a compilation of exempla twenty-five recounting miracles of the Virgin Mary, written around 1260 in a dialect of Castilian Rioja at a late stage of his life, using as a source collections of Marian miracles in Latin circulating in the thirteenth century. It is used in these stories in verse the verse from the rib Mester own way of Clergy. The Book of Good Love (1330 and 1343), is a work of Mester of Clergy of the eleventh century is a long and varied composition of 1728 stanzas, whose thread driver what is the story of the fictional autobiography of the author (Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, who is represented in a part of the book by the episodic character of Don Melon de la Huerta. Is unanimously regarded as one of the peaks Spanish literary any time, not just in the Middle Ages. The mester of clergy introduced sarita (a subgenre of lyric that expresses indignation toward someone or something, with moralizing purpose, or merely playful burlesque.) parody (a satirical play that caricatured or humorously interprets works of art, an author or a subject through emulation or ironic allusion) the fable (a story parenetic whose purpose is instruction on some principle or moral or ethical behavior, usually at the bottom or top of the same and called moral).
The characteristics of prose written in medieval romance, love theme, there are songs tambueb mowing, wedding, May romeria were anonymous and tr4ansmitian orally, the lyric genre, short compositions were shaped who collected songs that people sang.
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) poet, writer and humanist Structure Lucanor Count
Patronio The book consists of two prologues and five well-defined parts, the most interesting is the first, composed of 51 “enxiemplos” or apologists. Each story is identical in structure and rigidly follows: A young lord, the Count, consult your tutor to the many different problems it faced in the governance of their states. Patronio responds with a story or example alluding to the problem and clear moral teaching.


Juan Manuel (1282-1358) nephew of Alfonso X. Nobility, introduces the fiction in his books, author clarisima consciousness. In his works, expressing the political intrigue which I live. Tmbien the pride he had for his lineage, social power, economic, and humility as the other writer. It was very brave in batlles Jorge Manrique was born around 1440 in Palencia. His father was master of the Order of Santiago. Manrique is the most important poet of the second half of the fifteenth century. His poetry is formed by a 50 compositions that group into two blocks:love poetry (q is partly inherited cancionero polite and poetry. However, his style is less cultish, stilted and artificial. It can be noted some influence of Petrarch and the Italian Renaissance aesthetics. And the verses of the death of his pa dre, which is the work that has given him fame and one of the peaks lyrics of our literature. Manrique writes these verses to the thread of pain, resignation and sincere emotion aroused by the death of his father (1476) The theme is praised his father uses tags such as ubi sunt, and river life, death is equal for all. The characteristics: they are dedicated propagandists exalt the figure of his father, the poem is composed of 40 verses from broken foot Each couplet is formed by two sextuplet, in which a line is broken or standing tetrasilabo following each pair of eight-syllable. Uses simple language and elegant del mio cid Singing is an anonymous epic poem recounting heroic deeds inspired freely in recent years in the life of the Castilian knight Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar. This is the first comprehensive narrative work of Spanish literature in a Romance language, and noted for the high literary value of his style. It is divided into three songs (sing exile, sing sing for weddings and the reproach of Corpes. The language is highly expressive, vocative, competitions, variety of verb tenses (present to past) no verb, its progression is very present in their social life and military because it starts from very low and very far up thanks to his effort, honor, each verse is divided in two by a caesura hemistequios. In del mio cid sing both the number of syllables in each line as of syllables in each hemistequio varies considerably. Even when they are verses 10 to 20 syllables and hemistequios between four and 14, over 60% of the lines ranges between 14 and 16. Assonance rhyme in principle, the lines are grouped into variable extendable roll. Its length varies between 3 and 90 verses, each of which has the same rhyme and is often a content unit. It is said that singing is written in the s XII, two anonymous minstrels. The style and language often fit to the needs of a minstrel reciting his story.