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Darrera modificació: 2022-02-28
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat, Cançoners, Translat, Eiximenis, BBAHLM, Trobadors

Cifuentes i Comamala, Lluís, "Literatura i promoció social: lectura i creació literàries entre els menestrals catalans medievals", Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals, 8 (2021), 57-108.

Resum
This article aims to prove the active role played by artisans as consumers (readers, owners, copyists) of literature besides elite and court circles, and links it to the strategies of social promotion launched by that dynamic social group. The analysis is based on two types of sources: on the one hand, on an extensive sample of the presence of literary works in the libraries of the medieval Catalan lower middle classes, derived from the main documentary collections on history of the books produced to date; and, on the other hand, on some literary codices copied by individuals belonging to that social sphere, which have been re-examined. In addition, some individuals are identified regarding the transmission of some works of Francesc Eiximenis (Llibre de les dones and Llibre dels àngels) and the Catalan translation of La Queste del saint Graal, as well as regarding the origin of Jaume Conesa's translation of Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troie.
Matèries
Història de la literatura
Història de la cultura
Lectura i escriptura
Manuscrits
Cicle troià
Eiximenis, Francesc
URL
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The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).