Songs of Holy Mary of Alfonso X, the Wise: A Translation of the Cantigas De Santa Maria (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies)

This collection of the Cantigas de Santa Maria consists of 420 poems and songs gathered and set down by Alfonso X, El Sabio (The Wise) in the 13th century, recounting miracles performed by the Virgin Mary. That they were written in Galician-Portuguese, an important medieval spoken and literary language, ancestor of modern Galician and Portuguese,