Cortesanía y humanismo en el debate sobre la mujer: Alfonso de Cartagena y su Duodenarium = Court and humanism in the gender debate : Alfonso de Cartagena and his Duodenarium
Alfonso de Cartagena (1385-1456) wrote his Duodenarium at the request of his friend Fernán Pérez de Guzmán. It is about six questions. The last refers to the gender debate: What sort of excellence is the best, that of men or that of women? He holds that a woman, Virgin Mary, is over any human being...
| Published in: | Hispania sacra |
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| Subtitles: | Court and humanism in the gender debate |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Hispania sacra
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages NBE Anthropology NCA Ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
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B debate sobre la mujer B debate about women B siglo XV B Castilla B Alfonso de Cartagena B courtly literature B literatura cortesana B 15th Century |
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| Summary: | Alfonso de Cartagena (1385-1456) wrote his Duodenarium at the request of his friend Fernán Pérez de Guzmán. It is about six questions. The last refers to the gender debate: What sort of excellence is the best, that of men or that of women? He holds that a woman, Virgin Mary, is over any human being and analyzes the virtues of men (fortress, justice) and women (modesty, honesty). He vindicates the excellence of women by means of three dialogues, that correspond to three stages of moral evolution: natural law (Lucretia, Cato), old law (Susan, Joseph), new law (Queen Berenguela, Fernando III). He uses a literary device, not in the manner of the humanistic dialogue, but in that of the medieval disputatio. His ideas about women and marriage are conservative and rigorous. He margins sexuality and defends parental consent. He ends the question with the commentary of the biblical praise of the good wife, an interesting precedent of Fray Luis de León´s La perfecta casada. Alfonso de Cartagena (1385-1456) escribió su Duodenarium (1442) a instancias de Fernán Pérez de Guzmán. Se trata de la respuesta a una serie de cuestiones; la última se refiere al debate de la mujer: ¿qué excelencia es mejor, la femenina o la masculina? Sostiene la superioridad de una mujer, la Virgen, sobre cualquier otro ser humano y analiza las virtudes propias de hombres (fortaleza, justicia) y mujeres (modestia, recato). Vindica la excelencia femenina mediante tres diálogos —revelador de una elaboración literaria, pero se le impuso a don Alonso el modelo del diálogo-disputa de tradición medieval— de tres parejas excelsas, correspondientes a los tres estadios de evolución moral: ley natural (Lucrecia y Catón), ley vieja (Susana y José) y ley nueva (reina Berenguela y Fernando III de Castilla). Sus ideas sobre la mujer y el matrimonio son conservadoras, rigoristas: marginación de la sexualidad y defensa firme del consentimiento parental. Completa éstas el comentario del elogio bíblico de la buena esposa (Proverbios 31), anticipo de La perfecta casada de Fray Luis de León. |
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| ISSN: | 1988-4265 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hispania sacra
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3989/hs.2020.006 |