El vituperio contra las mujeres en el "Nuevo corpus de la antigua lírica popular hispánica", de Margit Frenk

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In this paper we analyze some compositions compiled by Margit Frenk in Nuevo corpus de la antigua lírica popular hispánica (2003), by pointing out the weight of the vituperation against women in lyrical poetry from oral tradition of the XV-XVII centuries. Many songs note the difference that supposedly separates women from virtue and advise against the danger of women’s freedom: they assign them sinful attitudes, like lust or avarice; revealing troubling figures, simultaneously attractive and repulsive, mostly represented by dark-skinned women. They also reprehend the attitudes of women from any age and any social position. By focusing our attention on male lyrical subject vituperating women –before flattered and venerated, according to the codes of courtly love–, we also discover female voices that convey the same misogynistic ideas when they don’t provide a counterpoint.