Ausiàs March y los maldicientes
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Archer, Robert
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Archer, Robert
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2018
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Revista de Cancioneros impresos y manuscritos ISSN 2254-7444 Nº. 7, 2018, pags. 1-18
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This article considers the question of the social importance that was attached to the accusation of maldiciente or slanderer of women in the context of the courts. The starting-point is a notarial document involving the fifteenth-century Valencian poet Ausiàs March. In it, it is clear that March was very concerned that it should be recorded that he publically refuted the accusation of making misogynistic remarks in the court of the Duke of Gandia, something that would be considered reprehensible in a knight. In the light of the document it is argued that the three known literary attempts by the slightly later figure of Pere Torroella (Pedro Torrellas) to minimize the effects of his own notorious and much maligned misogynistic poem, the Maldezir de mugeres, were almost certainly more in earnest than we might at first suppose.
