Subversion and laughter in the galician-portuguese satiric songs from the 13th century

In this study we analyze how the Galician-Portuguese satires of the 13th century show a laughable view of the world, with a laugh that subverted the seriousness of religious and courtier principles in buffoonery and jokes. The social and religious structures and rules in force gave way to the laughter of troubadours and jongleurs, who walked from city to city, by palace courts and squares ridiculing society and its values, with obscene vocabulary and scandalous stories. However, we observed that all this did not necessarily imply the denial of these values and principles, but that there were moments and spaces where laughter had freedom to exist in abundance, and in which people from different social layers could participate.