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  • Gonzalo de Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the Virgin

    A Translation and a Study

    by Robert Boenig ...
    In Gonzalo de Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the Virgin, Patricia Timmons and Robert Boenig present the first English translation of a twelfth-century Latin collection of miracles that Berceo, the first named poet in the Spanish language, used as a source for his thirteenth-century Spanish collection Milagros de Nuestra Señora. Using the MS Thott 128, close to the one Berceo must have used, ... Read more

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  • The Mystical Gesture

    Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Spiritual Culture in Honor of Mary E.Giles

    Edited by Robert Boenig ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: These essays ecplore the spiritual culture shared by texts and writers in Western Europe from the 13th to 17th centuries; the visionaries, mystics and nuns who were poets or scholars and the creative writers who drew on spiritual themes. The topics range chronologically from the late 13th to late 17th centuries and geographically from Germany, England, Italy ... Read more

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  • Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36

    Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

    Series Book 36 - Medievalia et Humanistica Series
    Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In ... Read more

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  • Essays Of Michel De Montaigne

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