Empleo del lenguaje feudal como lenguaje amoroso: el ejemplo del Cancioneiro de Ajuda

Abstract

The following essay studies how the Galician-Portuguese troubadours of the thirteen century proceeded to employ elements taken from the feudal language in their own compositions. The feudalism, which arrived through the open channel with Europe that the road to Santiago represented, provided not only a political organization of the community, but also a language of the domination. The poetry will collect those words that were usually used at the courts (lord, vassal, man, lawsuit, service) and transfer them to the love field.