摘要：Literature, while aesthetical manifestation inside certain historical period, contributes to the apprehension, or at least an attempt to it, of a socio-cultural conjuncture. From this premise on, the Low Middle Ages, more specifically the XII century and the German speaking regions of the Heiliges römisches Reich deutscher Nation, present us an amount of cultural influxes, shaped by the art of the word, which reflect changes and tendencies of that time. The novel of chivalry, coming from the north of France, found in Hartmann von Aue, poet and court’s ministerial of an Alamanic feudal lord, one of its greatest exponents. His vision on the world, focused on the literary doing of the court, bases itself, in the same manner, on a paradigmatic point of view, according to the ideas of the Roman Church. By showing a knight, who preferred the world to the observance of the rules of his social class, Hartmann teach the men of arms their places and ideal behaviour inside the feudal society. By describing an eleven years old young servant as model of a woman’s life, he pictures her exactly as required by the moral patterns of a collectivity with a highly male speech. The figure of God emerges then as the instance of decision, which allows both characters the felicity of a fortunate life on earth, where the warrior and the lady join themselves under His protection, presenting us an ideal representation of roles and social classes.
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