Chapter 7. Portugal (950–1400)

Abstract

This brief overview of the literary production of medieval Portugal shows the paths of continuity and communication with the production of other territories in the Iberian Peninsula and beyond into medieval Europe. The same genres and topics, the same anxieties and expectations, were dealt with by scholars from similar angles and using the same language, within a constant exchange of ideas and texts comprehensible to all, in a period when educated Europe shared the same cultural patterns and language.