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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460436303321

Autore

Berceo Gonzalo de <active 13th century, >

Titolo

Miracles of Our Lady / / Gonzalo de Berceo ; translated by Richard Terry Mount and Annette Grant Cash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

0-8131-2673-8

0-8131-5652-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Studies in Romance Languages ; ; 41

Disciplina

861/.1

Soggetti

Religious poetry, Spanish

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Translators' Introduction; Berceo and the Scholar's Art; Berceo and His Works; Miracles of Our Lady; The Virgin Mary in Typological Exegesis; The Miracles within the Context of Pilgrimage; The Translation; Notes; Works Cited; Introduction; 1. The Chasuble of Saint Ildephonsus; 2. The Fornicating Sexton; 3. The Cleric and the Flower; 4. The Virgin's Reward; 5. The Charitable Pauper; 6. The Devout Thief; 7. Saint Peter and the Proud Monk; 8. The Pilgrim Deceived by the Devil; 9. The Simple Cleric; 10. The Two Brothers

11. The Greedy Farmer 12. The Prior and Uberto the Sexton; 13. Jerónimo, the New Bishop of Pavia; 14. The Image Miraculously Spared by the Flames; 15. The Wedding and the Virgin; 16. The Little Jewish Boy; 17. Saint Mary's Church Profaned; 19. The Pregnant Woman Saved by the Virgin; 20. The Drunk Monk; 21. The Pregnant Abbess; 22. The Shipwrecked Pilgrim Saved by the Virgin; 23. The Merchant of Byzantium; 24 (25). The Robbed Church; 25 (24). The Miracle of Theophilus; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Miracle tales, in which people are rewarded for piety or punished for sin through the intervention of the Virgin Mary, were a popular literary form all through the Middle Ages.  Milagros de Nuestra Sehora, a



collection of such stories by the Spanish secular priest Gonzalo de Berceo, is a premier example of this genre; it is also regarded as one of the four most important texts of medieval Spain. Difficulties in translating this work have made it unavailable in English except in fragments; now Spanish-language scholars Richard Terry Mount and Annette Grant Cash have made the entire work access