“Fransa tol als engles cascun dia” (BdT 138,1): El saqueo a los ingleses en la lírica trovadoresca occitana
2008
In the beginning of the 13 th century, the French government started an aggres- sive campaign against the Albigensian heresy, condoned by the Papacy. That way they got to occupy the Occitan territories to the South. In their poems, the most political troubadours used all type of arguments on their reach, aimed for the victory in and out of the battlefi eld, searching an alliance with the most important powers of that time. England faced France, but the confrontation did not obtain the desired results; due to those results, soon they became the target of many jokes and jeers. They turned to be a stereotype, the victim of the French plundering, as it becomes evident when one reads the poetical works written by the Occitan writers of the century. Resumen: Con la excusa prestada por el Papado, el gobierno frances inicio a comienzos del siglo XIII una agresiva campana contra la herejia albigesa que le llevo a ocupar los territorios occitanos del sur. En sus composiciones, los trovadores mas politizados usaron todos los argumentos a su alcance imaginativo, con el objetivo de obtener la victoria dentro y fuera del campo de batalla, buscando la alianza con las potencias del momento. Los ingleses se contaron entre aquellos que se enfrentaron a Francia, pero con resultados muy distintos a los esperados; y pronto eso les llevo a ser los receptores de numerosas pullas burlonas. Se convirtieron en un estereotipo, la victima del saqueo protagonizado por los franceses, y asi
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