A D Deyermond

Medieval Spanish literature consists of the corpus of literary works written in Old Spanish between the beginning of the 13th and the end of the 15th century. Traditionally, the first and last works of this period are taken to be respectively the Cantar de mio Cid, an epic poem written at some point between 1140-1207, and La Celestina (1499), a work commonly described as transitional between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. By the end of the 10th century, the languages spoken in the Iberian …