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...
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...
Los Milagros de Nuestra Senora fueron escritos entre 1246 y 1252, siglo XIII. Son una coleccion de 25 milagros donde se muestra la beneficiosa intervencion de la Virgen en la vida de todos sus devotos. Berceo quiere aumentar la devocion por la Virgen. Para llevar a cabo esta tarea se sirve de la lirica trovadoresca, de gran importancia en aquella epoca, sus Milagros tienen un caracter epico, se dirigen directamente al publico, no incluyen cultismos, estan escritos con naturalidad."
Los Milagros de Nuestra Senora fueron escritos entre 1246 y 1252, siglo XIII. Son una coleccion de 25 milagros donde se muestra la beneficiosa interve...