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The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel
Edited by María Paz López Martínez, Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart and Ana Belén Zaera García
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 40] 2023
► pp. 343–358

Chapter 21
Notes on women and the law in the novel Los amores de Clareo y Florisea by Alonso Núñez de Reinoso

| Universidad de Salamanca

This paper analyses some of the aspects relating to women and the law in the first Byzantine novel published in Spain in 1552, Los amores de Clareo y Florisea y los trabajos de la sin ventura Isea, written by Alonso Núñez de Reinoso, the first nineteen chapters of which were inspired by the Greek novel written by Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon. In particular, it studies the female models embodied in the novel and in addition, some of the legal realia found in the work, such as matrimony, adultery and the presumed death of an absent spouse, all of which are legal precepts that determine the destiny of the two main characters, together with an analysis of whether Reinoso’s novel contains any reference to Castilian regulatory laws of the time, regarding these legal issues.

Keywords: Byzantine novel, Reinoso, female models, matrimony, adultery, presumption of death
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The Spanish Byzantine novel
  • 3.Alonso Núñez de Reinoso and his novel Los amores de Clareo y Florisea
  • 4.Women and the law in Los amores de Clareo y Florisea
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
Published online: 1 December 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.40.21pol
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