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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berceo, Gonzalo de, active 13th century
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Marie, > Sainte Vierge > Poesie.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Poetry.
Religious poetry, Spanish.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Poetry.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (176 pages).
ISBN:9780813156521

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