“CHEEKY MINSTREL” – THE PERFORMANCE OF LOW SOCIAL CLASS POETS IN THE IBERIAN MEDIEVAL TROUBADOURISM (XIII AND XIV CENTURIES)

Abstract

The subject of this article is to discuss the social tensions in the Iberian medieval societies from the XIII and XIV centuries, examining most specifically the troubadours practice and poetry of this period through the chants of the minstrels from the troubadour’s movement of Portugal and Castela in the second half of the XIII century. The aims is to examine how the poets of low social extraction, from different sections of the population, enter an area also frequented by the nobility and the King himself, especially in the social and cultural space of the Palace.