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La importancia del idioma castellano es, sin duda, un dato culturalmente relevante en el Portugal Moderno. Este ensayo procura destacar aspectos de una realidad que, asumiendo inevitablemente elementos diversos en las diferentes coyunturas, tuvo una expresión significativa en los más variados campos de la sociedad portuguesa -cortesano, literario, intelectual y político. Sólo a partir del siglo XVIII el bilingüismo luso-castellano conocería una pérdida importante, ya en el marco del reflujo de la influencia española en Portugal y del triunfo del nuevo paradigma cultural constituido por Francia. The importance of the Castilian language is undoubtedly a culturally important fact in Early Modern Portugal, particularly between the mid-fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries. This essay highlights some aspects of this phenomenon, which, despite inevitable variations in different contexts, received significant expression in a number of fields of Portuguese culture and society — among them, the court, literature and intellectual culture, and politics. The importance of Castilian only began to decline in Portugal from the eighteenth century onwards, a fact that may be accounted for both by the relative loss of Spanish influence over Portugal, and by the ascent of a new cultural paradigm, mainly derived from French culture. |