SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE CANCIONERO DE JUAN ALFONSO DE BAENA (FIFTEENTH CENTURY). NETWORKS AND MENTALITIES

This article presents a thorough examination of the sociological, anthropological and cultural content of Juan Alfonso de Baena's Cancionero with three objectives: 1. A sociological analysis of the relationship between the 51 poets in order to identify the main protagonists, as well as the relations between them and the compiler, Baena, through the language. 2. An anthropological analysis of the mentality that emanates from the verses of the Cancionero and that reveals the collective consciousness of an ill-known social group whose members may not hold power, but have a privileged position. 3. An in-depth analysis of the most polemical aspects regarding the Cancionero de Baena, like the use of concepts such as courtly poets or nobility specifically as evidence of the gap that exists between discourse and reality, along with certain conclusions held by current scholarship which deserve to be to be qualified as a result of this study.