Mujeres y juglaría en la Edad Media hispánica : algunos aspectos

Starting from the analysis of the character of Tarsiana in the Libro de Apolonio(first half of the 13th century), this article discusses the figures of the cantaderas and danzaderas, i. e. , the juglaresas, women performers who accompanied the jongleurs and worked at their side, shared their wandering life and received compensation for their own public performances. The juglaresas, called also soldaderas because they earned a daily wage, had a bad reputation to the point of being considered prostitutes, although most of them did not practice prostitution and could even be quite cultured. The purpose of this article is to emphasize once more that the artistic reality of female minstrelsy was rather more complex than transpires from the reconstructions made over the centuries from a predominantly male perspective.