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The Cultural Authority of "buen seso (natural)" in the Libro del Caballero Zifar

texts. For many critics, the passage from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period implicitly centers on the deconstruction of these compartments, what Erwin Panofsky refers to as, "the barriers that had kept diings in order -but also apartduring the Middle Ages" (128). While there is no question that the Libro del Caballero Zifar is a chivalric romance, to name one of these discursive categories, this observation by itself fails to position the work in its historical context as one of the first works of Castilian prose fiction. By rehistoricizing the Zifar and deconstructing these discursive assignments, it becomes possible to see how the text functioned as a speculum principum, or book of kingly advice, that was both practical and theoretical (E. Michael Gerii 92-93). As Fernando Gómez Redondo has observed, at the time of its redaction in the early fourteenth century, this didacticism was inexorably connected to the very real political conflicts surrounding the legitimacy ofKing Sancho and the political, historiographical and literary efforts of his modier, Maria de Molina, to promote her cause (105-23). It is in the context of die motinista enterprise that the Zifar emerges, forging cultural connections with other texts produced by the letrados in Maria de Molina's employ as well as diachronic ones with Alfonso the Learned's Siete partidas and previous literary texts. This study