Professor Martin Aurell, from CNRS in Poitiers, gave a seminar entitled “Cultura Caballeresca y literatura artúrica (siglos XII y XIII)” invited by the University of Santiago de Compostela GI-1350 Research Group, in which some members of this project are integrated.
The section dedicated to “women’s voices” had a special relevance in the working day and it is available here.
Professor Charmaine Lee, from Università degli Studi di Salerno, gave a seminar entitled “La tradición misógina en la Edad Media y los Fabliaux”.
Fabliaux are brief compositions of French origin where the voice of femininity and the rhetoric expression of women are prominent. Ch. Lee exhibited how these characters are set in popular chauvinistic environments of the last centuries of the Middle Ages.
it son unas breves composiciones de origen francés, donde la voz de la feminidad y la articulación retórica de la mujer ocupan un lugar destacado. Ch. Lee nos descubrió el modo en que estos personajes se configuran en los entornos populares machistas de los últimos siglos del medievo.