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Hardcover Alfonso X and the Cantigas de Santa Maria: A Poetic Biography Book

ISBN: 9004110232

ISBN13: 9789004110236

Alfonso X and the Cantigas de Santa Maria: A Poetic Biography

(Book #16 in the The Medieval Mediterranean Series)

In the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of more than four hundred poems written in the language of medieval Galicia in praise of the Virgin Mary, Alfonso X, el Sabio, king of Castile-Leon, has left us a kind of poetic biography. Declaring himself Mary's troubadour, he appeals to her as his advocate and consoler as he recounts specific events in his life and that of his kingdom. As he tells us about his family, his war against the Muslims...

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