“Semsaborias de Palmerim & Primaleom & Florisendo”: Reception and censorship of books of chivalry in Spain and Portugal
Abstract
The attacks of Spanish and Portuguese friars, preachers, confessors and moralists largely featured among the many prejudices that conditioned the reception of peninsular books of chivalry between the 16th and 17th centuries. Indeed, sectors linked to the Church fiercely criticised the moral dimension of texts such as Amadis de Gaula, Primaleón and Palmeirim de Inglaterra, while promulgating a devout literature that served to educate readers, especially young men and women. Was Spanish censorship more vehement and outright than Portuguese criticism? In this paper, I propose a comparative review of critical testimonies on the success of chivalric romances in the Iberian Peninsula.
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