Algunas observaciones acerca de lo dicho y lo callado en Erec et Enide de Chrétien de Troyes

Unlike other works by Chrétien where speech is suppressed due to the presence of a taboo or a fault committed by the individual vis-à-vis his environment, in Erec et Enide, speech is suppressed by an imposition, which seems, at first sight, arbitrary. The article seeks to examine the speech motif and the different facets it shows throughout the text, focusing mainly on Enide’s speech as a trigger to the adventure. Initially the work appears to be included in the long chain of texts which present women inevitably using speech either erroneously or mischievously. Although this is not the case in this work, Enide does not seem to escape from this “eloquence”, which often turns into a deviant use of language, as it was insistently pointed out by medieval clerics.