LOS ROMANCES DE MALMARIDADA A LA LUZ DE CÓDIGOS CULTOS

Abstract

The Spanish romances of malmaridada, unlike the French originals, more than presenting the unfortunate matrimonial union, go deeply into the husband’s , the wife’s and the lover’s characteristics, and into the whole married situation in a surreptitious manner. What could be just a story of men betrayed by their women becomes into a profound psychological framework that explains, thru key words or a code, the causes of the adultery. Twenty-century scholars hid with the patriarchal ethic the dark nooks of this home and focused their research on the woman’s punishment, supposedly just. They did not investigate the repetition, far from accidental, of certain sequences and words, whose continuity in time, not only vindicates them, but also, determines them as indispensable. We are to apprehend the romances of malmaridada as a whole that, beyond an ending frequently oppressive, state conspicuous judgment against asymmetrical marriages.