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Possibilities of ecofeminist interpretation of a song about a lover (cantiga de amigo) - genre of Galician-Portuguese poetry

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2021

Abstract

One of the genres of medieval Trobador poetry from the so-called Galician-Portuguese cycle was "songs of the loved one" (cantigas de amigo). The lyrical voice of individual poems-songs always belongs to a woman who often confides in her love mountain about nature: sea, wind, forest wells, etc.

Under the influence of the book "Ecofeminismo para otro mundo possible" by Alicia H. Puleo, the lecture seeks the possibility of ecofeminist interpretation. of these poetic formations.