Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of Portuguese Language and Literature
- Code
- BBI-POR17-301
- Title
- Portuguese Literature 1.
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- pt
- Learning outcomes
- Early Portuguese literature from the beginning to the time of Gil Vicente. Main genres and authors: Gallego-Portuguese troubadour literature, hagiography, historiography, didactic prose and short prose works. This is the starting point of a monographic arc in the teaching of Portuguese literature in our department, integrated with the reading of texts.
- Course content
- Topic: Lessons 1 to 5: In this monographic introduction to the first period of Portuguese literature, I will first discuss the main themes of Gallego-Portuguese troubadour literature: - Love songs, Provençal influence, channels of cultural transmission - Friendship songs, parallel editing and feminism. - The satirical genre: the sirventés and the cantiga de escárnio e maldizer. - The troubadours and their companions (jograis, segreis, menestrais and soldadeiras). Topic: Lessons 6-12 Among the prose works, in addition to didactic works such as hagiographies, mystical plays and treatises on moral education, I will also refer to translations and 'transcriptions' of chivalric romances. At the same time, I will attempt to place early Portuguese literature in an Iberian and European context, exploring the universal and regional characteristics and values of the Middle Ages through a study of monastic and court cultures. I will divide the following smaller chapters into this theme: - The lives of the saints, an example of everyday life. - Celtic-Breton mythology and the Arthurian legend in Portugal. - Fernão Lopes and the revolution in historiography. - Old and new patrons: the monastery and the court. - The pedagogical treatises of the Princes of the Order of Avis.
- Assessment method
- Mode of assessment: written or oral examination
- Bibliography
- Bibliography: (Reis, Carlos org.): História crítica da literatura portuguesa vol. I. Lisboa. Verbo. 1998. Godinho, Hélder: Prosa medieval portuguesa. Lisboa. Comunicação. 1986. Gonçalves – Ramos: A lírica galego-portuguesa. Lisboa. Comunicação. 1985. Lanciani – Tavani: Dicionário da literatura galega e portuguesa. Lisboa. Caminho. 1993. Rákóczi, István – Salvi, Giampaolo: Középkori portugál szöveggyűjtemény. Budapest. Tankönyvkiadó. 1994.