Chapter 5
As personagens femininas do Pergaminho Vindel
Until nowadays, traditional scholarship on the 13th-century cantigas de amigo from the Vindel Parchment has been based exclusively on two 16th-century cancioneiros and on the epistemological biases of 19th-century historiography of literature, with its scriptocentrism, viricentrism and nationalism.
An immense gap separates the reader’s close-reading experience of the 7 cantigas, with their sexually active young women, setting out for a rendezvous with their lover, and the official discourse which makes students ‘read’ them as simple, silly young girls waiting passively and suffering for absent lovers.
A new approach, combining postmodern insights and the radical decision to take the 13th-century Vindel Parchment as the basis of the historiography of 13th-century cantigas, opens new ways of reading them and rediscovering their female singers, composers and poets.
Article outline
- 1.As personagens: Realidade ou ficção?
- 2.Historiografia e fontes
- 3.Comparar Vindel e Sharrer
- 4.O “texto” da cantoria
- 5.O “autor” do Pergaminho Vindel
- 6.De cantiga bailada a cantiga galego-leonêsa transcrita
- 7.De “letra galego-leonêsa transcrita” a “texto” escrito da literatura portuguesa
- 8.De “texto” escrito a clássico da literatura portuguesa
- 9.Reler uma cantiga
- 10.Abrindo espaços para novos encontros…
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Bibliografia