Tristão e isolda na literatura de cordel: neomedievalismo, recepção da Idade Média e Ensino de História

Abstract

The myth of Tristan and Isolde is one of the best-known love stories in courtly literature, which played an important role during the Middle Ages and was responsible for developing and promoting new conceptions of love in XII and XIII century society. This famous love story has passed through time and is still very much present today through the many post-medieval recreations that have arrived in Brazil and which find their own reinterpretation and adaptation in cordel literature. In recent decades, we have seen a growing interest on the part of society in consuming and formulating works and products that seek to revisit or recreate a Middle Ages of grand castles and fairy tales. In this way, this work seeks to investigate and engage in a dialog based on the reinterpretations of the myth of Tristan and Isolde, and the analysis of the figure of the character Tristan, with the neo-medieval revisitations present in the work, exploring the challenges and potential of these reinterpretations and of cordel literature for the teaching of Medieval History.