Miracles of Our Lady

By: Gonzalo de Berceo

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Hardcover | 19 June 1997

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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 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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"A very useful book, chiefly because the layout enables readers -- who may nearly always rely on the accuracy of the translation -- to locate very quickly the counterpart of any line in the Spanish original. This accurate translation and useful introduction will be of great service to the interdisciplinary study of Marian miracle literature." -- Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Translators' Introduction	p. 1
Introduction	p. 21
The Chasuble of Saint Ildephonsus	p. 28
The Fornicating Sexton	p. 32
The Cleric and the Flower	p. 36
The Virgin's Reward	p. 38
The Charitable Pauper	p. 41
The Devout Thief	p. 43
Saint Peter and the Proud Monk	p. 46
The Pilgrim Deceived by the Devil	p. 49
The Simple Cleric	p. 54
The Two Brothers	p. 57
The Greedy Farmer	p. 62
The Prior and Uberto the Sexton	p. 64
Jeronimo, the New Bishop of Pavia	p. 68
The Image Miraculously Spared by the Flames	p. 70
The Wedding and the Virgin	p. 73
The Little Jewish Boy	p. 77
Saint Mary's Church Profaned	p. 81
The Jews of Toledo	p. 86
The Pregnant Woman Saved by the Virgin	p. 89
The Drunk Monk	p. 93
The Pregnant Abbess	p. 98
The Shipwrecked Pilgrim Saved by the Virgin	p. 109
The Merchant of Byzantium	p. 114
The Robbed Church	p. 123
The Miracle of Theophilus	p. 129
Selected Bibliography	p. 148
Index	p. 156
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