Primeros documentos en romance (causas y circunstancias)

Abstract

This work analyses the causes and circumstances surrounding initial Spanish writing and medieval documentation in the Castilian Peninsula. The documented Latin of the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries was very different from that of the bourgeois. Nevertheless, the epoch’s historical changes, Cultural Revolution, and resentment concerning papal annulment of Alfonso VIII and Berenguela’s marriage influenced in the decision to use romance as the language of administration. The number of romantic administrative documents increased during the reign of Fernando III and was consolidated during the times of Alfonso X, the scholar. The first Spanish document, however short, appears in the “Cartulario de Valpuestas”, in the north of Burgos.