Cornmissioned by Alfonso XI, great-grandson of Alfonso el Sabio, the "Crónica Troyana", the Castilian translation of the French "Rornan de Troie", is finished and copied by 1350. Sorne of the seventy miniatures of the rnanuscript, which belongs to the Cámara Regia, illustrate the main activities in Court in peaceful times. They show sorne fundamental aspects of these activities, proper to the nobility in the Middle Ages: games, hunting, rnusic and love. This article foregrounds how each of these aspects finds its reflection in the rnost important works of XIII and XIVth century Castilian literature