Un viaje en la baja Edad Media

Abstract

The article is a commentary on a poetical composition - "serranilla" - written by the Marqués de Santillana in the first half of the XVth century. This poem is actually linked to a journey by the future marquis to Liébana, a mountainous region in the north of Spain. His travel there was marked by a feud between him and his sister over their mother's heritage. Through the names of places quoted in the poem, diverse layers of meaning (mythological, political, and also related to the scenery and landscapes are constructed and seen to co-exist. The actual passage through Liébana becomes a journey of the mind in which the classical myths together with the geographical parameters provide an unexpected significance and scope that our modem travels fail to have.