The Miragres de Santiago and their sources: a study about the reception and diffusion of the Bernaldus’ tale

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https://doi.org/10.37536/RLM.2019.31.0.66023

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Miragres de Santiago, Liber Sancti Iacobi, Sources, Galician Literature

Abstract

The Liber de miraculis constitutes an outstanding section of the Liber Sancti Iacobi, composed of twenty-two miracles preceded by an introduction. This part has known an independent treatment in the translation into Galician of Miragres de Santiago, preserved in the only known ms. 7455 of the National Library of Madrid. Although the Liber Sancti Iacobi is the model that is considered for the writing of the Miragres, we must recognize that the internal program and the narrative pattern of each story are not followed faithfully by the anonymous galician, but there are omissions as well as interpolations that are difficult to pinpoint. Starting from the “joint vision” that has traditionally been the only critical approach reserved to the study of the sources of the Miragres, and encouraged by a lack of particular studies on each collection’s miraculous account, this contribution will offer a research on the eleventh miracle of Codex Calixtinus. The aim is to warn its recurrence in contemporary or later haxiographic literature, because this narration not only reaches the borders of literature in vernacular languages in its translation into the Galician Miragres de Santiago, but is considered a deserving account of being preserved in other important Latin-language compilations. Toponymic indications that refer to an Italian environment will be also analyzed and, through a new reading, we may suggest a horizon of creation for this story related to the Jacobean route.

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Manuel Negri , Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

É Doutor Internacional Cum Laude e Premio Extraordinario en Estudos Medievais (USC) cunha tese sobre a representación dos santos nas Cantigas de Santa Maria (dir. Elvira Fidalgo Francisco). Anteriormente, cursou os seus estudos en Filoloxía Románica na Università degli Studi di Padova (Italia). Na actualidade, é Investigador Posdoutoral Contratado na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela onde traballa ao proxecto "Literatura de eixo atlántico: Cantigas de Santa María localizadas en Galicia e Portugal". Traballou xa como bolseiro no Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (CRPIH) vinculado ao proxecto “Lírica Profana Galego Portuguesa” dirixido polas profesoras Mercedes Brea e Pilar Lorenzo Gradín. Participou tamén, baixo a dirección da profesora Elvira Fidalgo Francisco, no Proxecto Internacional de I+D “Las Cantigas de Santa Maria: de la edición a la intepretación” (Ref.: FFI2014-52710-P), financiado polo MINECO. Os seus intereses principais de investigación teñen que ver coas fontes das Cantigas marianas así como cos temas de escarnio da lírica profana. Investiga tamén as fontes de miragres en ‘veneziano’ e doutras colectaneas marianas europeas. É, ademais, membro da Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval (AHLM) e da Società Italiana de Filologia Romanza (SIFR)

Tania Vázquez García , Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

É Graduada en Linguas e Literaturas Modernas, no itinerario de Filoloxía Románica, coa mención de Premio Extraordinario polo Ministerio de Educación, Cultura e Deporte. Contou cunha bolsa de colaboración do MECD no Departamento de Filoloxía Galega (Área de Filoloxía Románica) no curso 2014-2015, así como coa bolsa Jae Intro no IEGPS (CSIC) ao ano seguinte. Foi membro do proxecto “Prosa Literaria Galega Medieval” do CRPIH e continúa a súa formación investigadora no ámbito da literatura medieval en linguas vernáculas, prestando especial atención ás trobairitz occitanas e á representación da muller nas cantigas de escarnio galego-portuguesas. Participou con comunicacións en varios congresos internacionais e algúns dos seus traballos xa foron publicados e están incluídos dentro do Proxecto “Voces de mulleres na Idade Media: realidade e ficción (séculos XII-XIV)” (FFI2014-55628-P), dirixido pola Dra. Esther Corral Díaz. Na actualidade, é profesora de ensino secundario da especialidade de Lingua Galega e Literatura

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2019-12-31

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Negri, M. and Vázquez García, T. (2019) “The Miragres de Santiago and their sources: a study about the reception and diffusion of the Bernaldus’ tale”, Revista de Literatura Medieval. Alcalá de Henares, ES, 31, pp. 161–177. doi: 10.37536/RLM.2019.31.0.66023.

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Vol. 31 (2019): Revista de Literatura Medieval

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