Medieval Portuguese Literature

Code:

EPL032

Acronym:

LPMED

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Literature

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://moodle.up.pt/course/view.php?id=2476
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Portuguese Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EP	7	EP - Study Plan	2	-	6	41	162
LLC	23	Study plan	2	-	6	41	162
		Study plan	2	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The purpose of this course is to lead the students to a close contact with some of the most relevant texts of Galician-Portuguese poetry and to elucidate the social, cultural and aesthetical conditions surrounding the production and reception of those compositions.

Learning outcomes and competences

The current syllabus aims aims at acquainting students with one of the most important literary corpus that ever flourished in Portugal, namely from an European standpoint, even if it must always be taken into account that Galician-Portuguese language was shared by Portugal and Galicia until the end of the fourteenth century. The poetry written in that language was thus common to Portugal and to other territories in medieval iberia. The compositions preserved in the «cancioneiros» will be approached from the social and cultural as well as from the formal and discursive perspectives, in an attempt to survey the links with Occitan, Spanish or French contemporary poetry and also o ascertain which innovations and specificities where introduced by successive generations of poets during a period of near one hundred and fifty years. The first and second generations (1190-1240) will be the object of a particularly close scrutiny. The understanding of Galician-Portuguese poetry will be based on the  systematic use of comparative methodologies, a procedure for which students will be provided by the teacher with the adequate philological tools. 

Working method

Presencial

Program

I. 1  From the advent of vernacular languages to medieval literature:

I. 2 Heritage and tradition; oral culture and written culture;

I. 3  The imaginary of feudal society; the «cortezia»;

I. 4 Specific features of troubadouresque poetics;

II. 1 Troubadouresque culture in Iberia: chronology, geography and social stratification of the authors:

II. 2 The first generation of Galician-Portuguese troubadours and jongleurs: from the beginnings in Castile to Galicia and the kingdom of Portugal;

II. 3 The innovations of the second generation; from the «serviço à dona» to the seeking of the «amiga»;

II. 4 Between fiction and reality: the question of the abduction of the woman;

II. 5 The reception of portuguese and galician inventions by the court of Alphonso X:

II. 6 From representation to literature; the anthologies of the twelfth an thirteenth centuries and the extant manuscript tradition.

III. Portuguese Literature in the late Thirteenth Century and the begining of the Fourteenth Century.

 

Mandatory literature

António Resende de Oliveira; O^trovador galego-português e o seu mundo. ISBN: 972-46-1286-4
Ferreira, Manuel Pedro; Cantus coronatus. ISBN: 3-937734-09-0
Ferreira, Maria do Rosário; Águas doces, águas salgadas. ISBN: 972-8594-02-X
Giuseppe Tavani; Arte de trovar do Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa
Kohler, Erich; Sociologia della fin.amor
José Carlos Ribeiro Miranda; Os^trovadores e o rapto de Elvira Anes da Maia. ISBN: 978-989-8459-61-9
Miranda, José Carlos Ribeiro; Aurs mesclatz ab argen. ISBN: 972-9350-89-2
Miranda, José Carlos Ribeiro; Calheiros,Sandim e Bonaval
Oliveira, António Resende de; Trobadores e Xograres. ISBN: 84-7507-945-8
Tavani, Giuseppe; Trovadores e jograis. ISBN: 972-21-1466-2

Comments from the literature

The texts are listed after the program. Other studies will be provided during the semester.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theory-practical classes and tutorials.

Software

http://moodle.up.pt/course/view.php?id=3396

keywords

Humanities > Literature > European literature > Romance literatures > Portuguese literature

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	71,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Trabalho de investigação	35,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

Previous research: 50%; Essay: 50%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the Assessment Regulations

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations