Women as social mediators in the courtly literature of medieval Castile: lineage and social ascent
Abstract
Considering that the most representative texts of the courtly love tradition propose characters of powerful women who fulfil the function of assimilating the second-class members of noble families to the royal court, in this paper, we will deal with the theme of noble heiresses as social mediators, that is, as articulators who act as liaisons between the beloved and the kingdom. Our study, due to its panoramic character, includes Castilian texts of different genres from the 13th to the 17th centuries, which will allow us to see the particularities of the Castilian works and the development of the courtly model, from the first formulation in the Cantar de Mio Cid, through the apogee in the Libro del Caballero Zifar, to the tragic projections of the sentimental novel and the parodic ones proposed in both Celestina and Don Quixote.
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