The fourteenth century mester of clergy: The Book of Good Love, the Archpriest of Hita.

Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, wrote the most brilliant and original work of the fourteenth century Book of Good Love. The shape could be included in the mester of clergy, but are in the temasque lejania reflect the didacticism.

From the author of the book and good love we know almost nothing only his name, but his work reflects that he was a vital, funny, sincere piety, so autobiographical work to bring it to the reader was a great connoisseur dela literature in popular and learned.

Book of Good Love
-Theme: play written in verse via cuadernia predominates, so they are included in the mester of clergy, because x is demaspresenta absence of didacticism. Good love e-books narrate different love episodes autobiofrafica try aconseguir love of a woman.
Texts Lent and carnal moral digressions on wine, burlesque compositions or poem about the money, serranillas ..
-Originality: The most innovative of the Book of Good Love is mix of contradictory elements: religion and vitalism, the serious tone and sometimes farcical and serious about love cuts x example. dificl make it to interpret the author's purpose is unclear. Prologue, provide conra mad love but if you want to use it you have qaqui tracks.
- The style of the book of good love shows a rich and varied language. We use the colloquial register worship and a glossary very broad, popular expressions, apart from rib appears via zejel (folk poetry)
The narrative prose in the fourteenth century

In the fourteenth century begins to develop in Castilian prose narrative that covers topics chivalric narratives.

Romances: overseas (thirteenth century) anonymous narrative, is seen as a history of romances. The first work of this kind is The Cifar caaballero of 1304 (Ferrand Martinez).
Collections of parables or examples: clusters of stories that have a didactic purpose and whose moral teaching or summarized at the end. It was very successful all over Europe (Decameron, Canterbury Tales).

The Count, Don Juan Manuel

Don Juan Manuel is the author of the Count, a set of stories linked by 2 characters: the Count, and Patronio. This fourteenth-century work is considered the first prose fiction author Castilian. Didactic purpose, moral lesson.
Structure:
"The Count, a problem Patronio
"Patronio responds on the problem knows that a story
The earl put into practice the advice and was well
The author sums up the idea of the moral.

Topics: The concerns of the era dela aristocrats, such as maintaining the prestige and wealth dela, or behavior to be followed by the nobles.
Don Juan Manuel also wrote (book of knight and squire, the book states)