Daily Life Depicted in the Cantigas de Santa Maria (Studies in Romance Languages)

Men and women are seen farming, hunting, on pilgrimage, watching bullfights, in gambling dens, making love, tending silkworms, eating, cooking, and writing poetry, to name only a few of the human activities represented here.Combining keen observation of detail with years of experience in the field, John Keller and Annette Grant Cash bring to life a world previously little explored.. The hundreds of illuminated miniatures found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, sponsored by King Alfonso X (1252–84), reveal many vistas of daily life in thirteenth century Spain.No other source provides such an encyclopedic view of all classes of medieval European society, from kings and popes to the lowest peasants

Weak at Best While the depictions of daily life in this work may be of interest those sections referring to clothing are both convoluted and misleading. Descriptions of garments worn and sumptuary laws reference few other documents then a paper written by Kathleen Kulp-Hill of which the author gives inordinate praise.For those researching Garment Construction and reproduction and practices this book provides little more than narrative of images found in the . Daily Life Depicted in the CSM A Customer This volume is worth the price for any Cantigas de Santa Maria enthusiast simply for the color plates (although many of these are repeats of those presented in the 1984 book by Keller and Kincade, Iconography in Medieval Spanish Literature). The index, a logically categorized list of specific aspects of daily life in the miniatures, is very thorough indeed and should be extremely useful for further research in Cantigas iconography. The short dis

"Winner of the 1999 SAMLA Studies Book Award."

Keller, professor emeritus of Spanish at the University of Kentucky, is coauthor of Iconography in Medieval Spanish Literature.Annette Grant Cash, visiting assistant professor of Spanish at Georgia State University, is the co-translator of Miracles of Our Lady by Gonzalo de Berceo. . John E