Realidad y ficción en la Edad Media. Las epístolas poéticas latinas de Baudri de Bourgueil a las mujeres de Ronceray (ss. XI-XII)

  1. Camino Plaza, Laura 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

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Journal:
Theory Now. Journal of Literature, Critique, and Thought

ISSN: 2605-2822

Year of publication: 2020

Volume: 3

Issue: 2

Pages: 168-189

Type: Article

DOI: 10.30827/TNJ.V3I2.15325 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The specificity of medieval epistolary literature motivates our approach to this genre, which is based on the friction between two paradigms: one which maintains that texts represent human experience, and another which, on the contrary, points toward its configuration based on the imaginative potential inherent in literature itself. At the beginning of the 12th century, when fiction as we understand it today began to establish itself in Europe, the autonomy acquired by literature enabled it to no longer necessarily be connected to its historical reality (Verbaal, “How the West”). However, some authors, such as Baudri of Bourgueil, chose to continue experimenting with the intersection of the two planes and sought to explore the fictional capacities of epistolary literature directed toward people whose lives are historically documented and preserved. In this study, it will be relevant to analyze the epistolary poetry written by Baudri for Ronceray’s nuns, from which we can extract a sociological reading with which to re-situate the role of women in the Middle Ages.

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