1st Edition

Berceo's Life of Santa Oria Text, Translation and Commentary

By A.J. Lappin Copyright 2001
326 Pages
by Routledge

The text of Gonzalo de Berceo's mid-thirteenth-century hagiographical poem, the Vida de Santa Oria, is critically editied and accompanied by the first English translation ever published. The introduction outlines the background to Berceo's poem as being a Spanish verse translation of the eleventh-century life (now lost) written shortly after the saint's death in the Riojan monastery of San Millan... Read more
Foreword, Introduction I Text and Translation: Vida de Santa Oria de Gonzalo de Berceo, The Ufe of Saint Oria by Gonzalo de Berceo, II Commentary to Berceo s Vida de Santa Oria, III Textual Notes, Word List, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Anthony J. Lappin. Volume Editor Dr David Pattison, Magdalen College, Oxford.