For three hundred years the Spanish Middle Age (mid-12th–mid-15th century) in great part continued the tradition of the entire 1000-year medieval period (5th–mid-15th century).

Poetry

• Narrative Poetry
  • Mester de juglaría
    • Folk Epic
    • Other juglaría poems
  • Mester de clerecía
    • Clerical Themes: saints' lives and Church history
    • Secular Themes: wordly heros and social satirer
  • Danza de la Muerte (early 15th century)
• Lyric Poetry
  • Galician-Portuguese
  • Early Castilian
  • Courtly

Drama

Novelistic Prose

• Exempla
• Chivalric Romances
• Other Novelistic Prose

Dydatic Literature

• Alfonso X
• History
• Proverbs