Mester de Clerecía is a Spanish literature genre that can be understood as an opposition and surpassing of Mester de Juglaría. It was cultivated in the 13th century by Spanish learned poets, usually c
Libro de Alexandre, 13th century; this has been regarded as the declaration of principles of the "mester de clerecía": Mester traigo fermoso, non es de joglaría mester es sin pecado, ca es de clerezía fablar curso rimado por la cuaderna vía a sílabas cuntadas, ca es grant maestría.— Libro de Alexandre, vv. 5-8.