Research Catalog

Title

Berceo's Vida de Santa Oria : text, translation and commentary / Anthony Lappin.

Author

Berceo, Gonzalo de, active 13th century

Publication

Oxford : Legenda [in association with] European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Lappin, Anthony
• University of Oxford. European Humanities Research Centre

Description

xi, 313 p; 22 cm.

Summary

"Oria lived as an anchoress in the major monastery of San Millan de la Cogolla in La Rioja. Her life was marked by spectacular visions which promised her own salvation and defined her relationship to Christ and his Church. These visions were recorded by an eleventh-century contemporary of hers, but his Latin work, now lost, is preserved only in the Romance versification by Gonzalo de Berceo. This edition of the Vida de Santa Oria (c. 1260), Berceo's last and finest work, seeks to provide a definitive text of the poem. The commentary not only discusses the initial meaning of the visions to Oria herself and to those who surrounded her but reconstructs Berceo's own motives in the handling of his material and the connections between his poem and his earlier works."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Vida de Santa Oria. English & Spanish

Alternative Title

Vida de Santa Oria.

Subject

• Auria, Saint, -approximately 1100
• Berceo, Gonzalo de, active 13th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-305) and index.

Language (note)

• Spanish text and English translation on facing pages.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1900755173

OCLC

• 47222867
• SCSB-12649092

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library