Cornalis de Alemania, un ministril de Juan II de Castilla al servicio de la realeza peninsular. Estudio y documentos (¿1426?-†1484)
- 1 Departamento de Historia de América y Medieval y Ciencias Historiográficas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (España)
ISSN: 1135-125X
Year of publication: 2017
Issue: 25
Pages: 191-216
Type: Article
More publications in: Cuadernos del CEMYR
Abstract
Cornalis of Germany, in his post as a ministrer of chalemie, can be regarded as the paradigm of the curial and professional trajectory of those active musicians working in the royal environment in the twilight of the Middle Ages. Presumably formed in prestigious North European schools of minstrels, he came to Juan II of Castile’s court in his youth. There, at the time one of the most active and attractive political and cultural centers, Cornalis achieved great prestige, thus travelling through some of the most relevant courts of the moment. At the end of his life he worked for queen Isabella the Catholic and lived in Valladolid, where he died in 1484