Portuguese Medieval Literature
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2024-2025
01012369
Portuguese Language Literature
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
NA
Teaching Methods
Lectures complemented with the historical and culturally situated reading of texts representative of the literary period under survey. Reception of the texts and connection with Iberian and European trends are taken into account. Different trends in studies on the field will be discussed. Texts will be subject to a hermeneutical assessment supported by methodologies issued from auxiliary sciences, opening to broad literary and cultural understanding. Presentations by students, who will be guided into the research of themes within the scope of the course. Use of multimedia and online materials.
Learning Outcomes
This course aims to enable the students to 1) acquire references that make them surpass the initial estrangement towards literary objects marked by the temporal and cultural gap between Middle Ages and Contemporaneity; 2) feel curious about medieval matters and texts and enjoy their study; 3) understand Medieval Portuguese Literature in its specific features, in its Iberian connections and in its relations with European coeval social and cultural standpoints; 4) make use of concepts, methodologies and perspectives standing on auxiliary disciplines that may lead to a culturally productive approach to other medieval literary texts or artistic works outside the scope of the course.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
A survey of Medieval Portuguese Literature (from the oldest poetic compositions in Galician-Portuguese to the late medieval poetry of Cancioneiro Geral), stressing its Iberian and European setting. Literary production and circulation of texts within the temporal milieus that canonised the written use of vernacular language will be surveyed. Two periods will be defined: the first one, the apogee of the feudal world, featuring the courtly and chivalresque imaginary of the landowning nobility; the second one, bearing the mark of the centralisation of power brought about by social and political changes in the XIVth c., through which the king’s court, stately and bureaucratic, appropriates literature as a means to assert authority and to codify new forms of sociability. The aristocratic written culture of the first period, based on the functional complementarity of its literary production in the fields of troubadour poetry, historiography and Arthurian romance, will get major focus.
Head Lecturer(s)
Maria do Rosário Prata Ferreira dos Santos
Assessment Methods
Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%
Periodic Assessment
Mini Tests: 25.0%
Other: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%
Bibliography
Amado, T.(1991). Fernão Lopes contador de história. Sobre a «Crónica de D. João I». Lisboa:Estampa
Ferreira, M.R.(1999). Águas Doces, Águas Salgadas. Da funcionalidade dos motivos aquáticos na “Cantiga de Amigo”. Porto:Granito
Ferreira, M.R.(2019). Pedro de Barcelos e a Escrita da História. Porto:Est. Criativas
Laranjinha, A.S.(2010). Artur, Tristão e o Graal. A escrita romanesca no ciclo do Pseudo-Boron. Porto:Est. Criativas
Mattoso, J.(2009). Naquele Tempo. Ensaios de História Medieval. Lisboa:Círculo de Leitores
MIranda, J.C.(1998). Galaaz e a ideologia da Linhagem. Porto:Granito
Miranda, J.C.(2005). Aurs mesclatz ab argen. Sobre a primeira geração de trovadores Galego-Portugueses. Porto:Guarecer
Moreira, F.A.(2013). A Crónica de Portugal de 1419. Fontes, Estratégias e Posteridade. Lisboa: Gulbenkian
Oliveira, A.R.(2001). O Trovador galego-português e o seu mundo. Lisboa:Notícias
Tavani, G.(2002). Trovadores e jograis: introdução à poesia medieval galego-portuguesa. Lisboa:Caminho