El mal de la pereza y sus repercusiones ideológicas en el Poema de Alfonso Onceno

This study seeks to prove that the characterisation of the Muslim foe’s laziness portrayed in the Poema de Alfonso Onceno’s should not be conceived as a part of a neutral descriptive procedure. On the contrary, it should be understood as a political and ideological tool that seeks to delimit the field of foes and allys —even within the christian faction—, in order to justify a series of actions of promotion or reprobation towards each of the social groups that coexist in the poem.