The Cantigas de Santa Maria
Power and Persuasion at the Alfonsine Court
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 August 2024
- ISBN 9780197670590
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 249x163x27 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 33 texts with translations, 6 halftones, 2 line drawings 591
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Short description:
Alfonso X (1221-84) ruled over the Crown of Castile from 1252 until his death. Known as "the Wise," he oversaw the production of a wealth of literature, one of the most impressive of which is the collection of songs known as the Cantigas de Santa Maria. This book offers a new perspective to the song collection, probing how the Cantigas use their music and text, together with rhetorical devices, to communicate with their desired audience.
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Alfonso X (1221-84) ruled over the Crown of Castile from 1252 until his death. Known as "the Wise," he oversaw the production of a wealth of literature in his scriptorium. One of the most impressive of these literary outputs is the collection of songs known as the Cantigas de Santa Maria, which by most counts comprises 429 songs preserved in four manuscripts. The miracle songs (or cantigas de miragre) form the focus of this book. While the Cantigas have been the subject of much scholarly attention, only a handful of studies have looked at the repertory through an interdisciplinary lens. Fewer still have probed how the Cantigas use the power of song as a communicative medium, one that functions as a social tool within the erudite environment of the Alfonsine court.
This book offers a new perspective to the song collection, probing how the Cantigas use their music and text, together with rhetorical devices, to communicate with their desired audience. Author Henry T. Drummond builds upon previous methodologies, adopting a novel and holistic assessment of the songs' melodies, poetic features, and narrative logic to assess a wide selection of songs. He presents a nuanced understanding of a song form that effectively conveys its narratives to its listeners via a diverse combination of tools, embracing medieval rhetoric, rhyme-based play, and song's inherent ludic potential. Such devices, Drummond argues, allow for the Cantigas to loom large as propaganda pieces, designed to dignify Alfonso X through an elaborately devised courtly ritual.
In this pioneering account of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, Henry T. Drummond brings diverse disciplinary perspectives to bear on the craft, meaning, experience, and function of song in the time of Alfonso X. The results are a deeply humanised and historicised account of the Cantigas, illuminating in stunning detail how songs were powerful instruments of community expression. As well as inspiring future studies of the Cantigas, this outstanding book will undoubtedly be a vital point of reference for anyone working on medieval song.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
A Note to the Reader
Preface
Chapter 1 Songs of Persuasion
Chapter 2 Sung Rhetoric
Chapter 3 The Place of Rhyme
Chapter 4 Three Jewish Conversion Songs
Chapter 5 Cantigas and Image-Building
Chapter 6 Crusades and Kingship
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
