Miracles of Our LadyUniversity Press of Kentucky, 19.06.1997 - 158 Seiten 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 accessible to English readers for the first time. Berceo's miracle tales use the verse form cuaderna via (fourfold way) of fully rhymed quatrains -- which Berceo may even have invented -- and are told in the language of the common man. They were written to be read aloud, most likely to an audience of pilgrims, and are an outstanding example of oral religious narrative. The total work comprises twenty-five miracles, preceded by a renowned Introduction that celebrates the Virgin in rich symbolic allegory. Mount and Cash's translation is highly readable, yet it retains the original meaning and captures Berceo's colloquial style and medieval nuances. An introduction placing the miracles in their medieval context and a bibliography complement the text. |
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... advice and , Estevan , it is advice that you must take : I order you to recite a psalm each day : ' Beati inmaculati . . .'12 which is very good to pray . If you say this Psalm each morning and right the wrongs that you did to the ...
... advice that can help me . 519 Mother , we read it well , the scripture says it , ( 518 ) You are of such grace and such great temperance , that whoever willingly tells You his fear You immediately help him in all his anxiety . You ...
... advice in some way , 635 636 637 send me Your grace by some path ; for You , such an act is a very easy thing . I swam the whole sea , will I die on the shore ? " While he was praying , God wished to help him . The burgher thought of a ...
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Translators Introduction | 1 |
The Fornicating Sexton | 32 |
The Cleric and the Flower | 36 |
Urheberrecht | |
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