Miracles of Our Lady /
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 exam...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Summary: | 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 accessi. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780813156521 |