The Cantigas de Santa Maria Critical Edition
Preliminary work for the new critical edition of the Cantigas de Santa Maria began in 2005, supported by the Research Development Fund of Oxford University with Research Assistants Alison Campbell and Roberto Ceolin collating early editions, transcribing rubrics and legends, and cataloguing key linguistic variants.A sequence of methodological papers developed the underlying principles of the edition, which aims for consistency of edition inside each poem, and coherence across the whole corpus. The latter principle implies that no text can be considered final until all have been completed and collated.
The edition also aims for maximal metrical clarity, for the purposes of supporting the emerging musical edition (produced by our partner team in the Universidade Nova de Lisboa).
The first formal stage of the Edition project (2012-2014) was supported by the British Academy Research Development Award BR100062, Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria, with David Barnett as RA, culminating in the publication of our anthology of 45 edited texts in the MHRA Critical Texts Series.
The second stage, funded by an Emeritus fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust (2015-2017), took the number of provisionally edited poems to 320.
Stephen Parkinson has completed first drafts of all poems, and is revising the entire corpus in the light of comments on the Anthology, expanding the textual and editorial commentary. In addition to the texts already linked to the database, provisional texts are available as pdfs on our Text Archive.