La escenificación de las relaciones entre el rey y los consejeros en don Juan Manuel

Abstract

During the presentation of the plot of El libro del caballero y Escudero (1326) and El libro de los estados (1327-1330) by don Juan Manuel certain scenes unfold in which the figures of both king and he´s councilors are involved. Through this, norms and ideas of the importance of the figure of the royal councilor are foreshadow, a recurrent topic throughout the political-didactical Castilian texts of the end of the XIIIth and the beginning of the XIVth Century. In the initial staging of both books we can observe how don Juan Manuel projected, in the early reign of King Alfonso XI, certain political-cultural values whose origins are in the unstable and conflicted reign of King Fernando IV