The Iberian medieval Galician-Portuguese lyric and symbolic violence - XIII and XIV centuries

Abstract

The subject of this article is to discuss the symbolic violence in the Iberian medieval societies from the XIII and XIV centuries, examining the troubadours practice and poetry of this period. In the historical context of the medieval centralization around the kingdom, the text analyses Galego-Portuguese chants in witch ones we can see the social tensions between troubadours from different social categories, and also troubadours in opposition in relation to the king.