De amor y de feudos: lectura jurídica del Cancioneiro de Ajuda

The following essay studies how the Galician-Portuguese troubadours of the thirteen century used to employ elements taken from the feudal language in their own compositions. The feudalism, which arrived through the open channel with Europe embodied by Path to Santiago, provided not only a political organization of the community, but also a language of the domination. The poetry will collect those words that were usually used at the courts (lord, vassal, man, lawsuit, service) and transfer them to the love field