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Santiago Vicente Llavata
Universitat de València
Spain
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8846-2434
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Vol 48 (2021), Articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/verba.48.6758
Submitted: 17-04-2020 Accepted: 28-06-2020 Published: 29-10-2021
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This article aims to contribute to the knowledge of medieval Hispanic phraseology by means of the study of the phraseological units which are represented in Enrique de Villena’s Los doze trabajos de Hércules (1417). More specifically, this contribution describes the history of the idioms en una compañía e de un coraçón, con mano fuerte, a consejo e induzimiento de, a pro e acresçentamiento de / por acresçentamiento de / por cresçimiento de, in order to delimit the prose models Villena based himself on and to assess his to the gradual standardization of these units. To achieve this aim, this study follows Echenique’s (2003) line of research, in order to deal with the historical analysis of these lexicalizated sequences, characterized by its idiomaticity, fixation and expressivity. This is intended to verify the existence of a certain stylistic continuity between Los doze trabajos de Hércules and the medieval Hispanic historical prose, with special attention on the domain of the Crown of Aragon and on the narrative tradition of the matter of Troy.