Fifteenth-Century Spanish Poetry | Jane Whetnall (essay date 1984)
Jane Whetnall (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: Whetnall, Jane. “Lírica femenina in the Early Manuscript Cancioneros.” In What's Past is Prologue: A Collection of Essays in Honour of L. J. Woodward, edited by Salvadore Bacarisse, et al., pp. 138-50. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1984.
[In the following essay, Whetnall studies the feminine lyric tradition—featuring the poetic laments of grieving, betrayed, and wronged women—in cancionero verse.]
There is a small number of poems en boca femenina in the manuscript cacioneros that collect the lyric output of the first half of the fifteenth century.1 They are so few and so unobtrusive that they have attracted little attention to date but I think they are worth examining as a group, for several reasons. In the first place, they purport to be the lyric expression of women, and women's songs have a particular importance in the history of Peninsular...
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