Thematic and formal approach to the Cantigas de Amor. Notions of: Provençal Literature; Portugal under the reign of D. Dinis; medieval literary conceptions of love and eroticism.    

Reading of, and discussion about, the following songs: “Song about the Pain of Love and Sea”; “Song in Provençal Style”; “Song about the Provençal Poets”, in: 113 Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems. Trad. Richard Zenith. Manchester, Carcanet Press, 1995.

Listening to "O que nunca vos cuidei a dizer" (D. Dinis): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkzqAH8y0uY .

Introduction to the Galician-Portuguese Medieval Songs database: http://cantigas.fcsh.unl.pt/index.asp?ling=eng .