Gonzalo de Berceo : the poet and his verses / Anthony John Lappin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lappin, Anthony.

Series:

Colección Támesis. Monografías ; Serie A, 268.

Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 268

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berceo, Gonzalo de, active 13th century--Criticism and interpretation.

Berceo, Gonzalo de.

Berceo, Gonzalo de, active 13th century.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xii, 266 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis, 2008.

Contents:

Abbreviations and Sigla xi

I The Life 3

Place of Birth and Early Years 3

Date of Birth 4

Name and Parents 7

Goncalvo de Verceo and the Monastery of San Millan 9

II The Manuscripts 17

M 17

I 19

Q 20

F 24

Other Medieval Manuscripts 36

III The Works 37

The Expansion of the Corpus 43

The Extent of the Corpus 52

IV The Ideas 81

Canon Law 81

Propaganda 98

V The Poet 117

Le Francais en Espagne 119

The Figure of the Author 129

Poetic Practice 138

Part 2 The Verses

VI Error 153

The Identification of Error 154

Dieresis 166

Further Errors 169

Errors in F 171

VII Variants 179

Variation Affecting the Initial Letter of the Line 179

Variation between Letters in a Word 180

Variation between Words 194

Acceptable Variants from F 213

Another Form of Variant 226

The Transmission of Metrically Imperfect Lines 234

Index rerum, nominum atque verborum 251

Index versuum 261.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-249) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781855661738

185566173X

OCLC:

209770146