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Milagros de Nuestra Seora by Gonzalo de Berceo
translated by Tsuyomasa Ota
Abstract
Gonzalo de Berceo was a Castilian poet born in the last years of the twelfth century in the Riojan village of Berceo, close to the major Benedictine monastery of San Milln de la Cogolla. He is celebrated for his poems on religious subjects, written in a style of verse that has been called mester de clerecascholars artas compared with mester de juglaraminstrels work. Gonzalo is recorded as being a deacon in his home parish in the early 1220s, and as a priest from 1237 on.Milagros de Nuestra SeoraMiracles of our Lady, Berceos most studied work is a collection of twenty-five miracles of the Virgin Mary. The form of these miracle tales written in the erudite form of cuaderna vafour-fold wayis simple as is Berceos style in general.The present translation is made from Tale 6 to Tale 12.
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