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| CSM Number : 64 | |||
| Short name: | The Woman who could not Remove her Slipper | Alternative: | Shoe stuck on foot |
| Incipit: | Quen mui ben quiser o que ama guardar | ||
| Refrain: | Quen mui ben quiser o que ama guardar/ a Santa Maria o dev’ a encomendar. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | Aragón | Protagonist(s): | a noble woman |
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A nobleman, who had a beautiful wife, was summoned for military service by his lord. His wife asked him to assign her a guardian. He commended her to the Virgin Mary. A knight fell in love with the woman and tried to seduce her. He sent an old woman with presents to lure her. The woman forced her to try on some slippers of Cordovan leather. The woman tried one, but could not remove it. No one else could pull it off either. Her foot was stuck in the slipper for a month and a year. When the nobleman returned, his wife confessed what she had done. He forgave her, told her that the Virgin had protected her, and removed the shoe. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 13 13 13 13 | Refrain: | 11 13 |
| No. of Stanzas: | 18 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | Yes |
| MS locations: | |||
| T64, E64, To52 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| None | |||
| Keywords | |||
| go-between, guardian, image (of Virgin Mary), knight, letter , lovesickness, lust, mass, noblewoman, slipper, warfare | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3781 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| Cantigas de D. Alfonso X Anon [Morayta de Sagrario, Miguel] | |||
| Courtly Love as Ritual in Early Medieval Spanish Poetry Burt, John R. | |||
| Composición, estilo y texto en la miniatura del Códice Rico de las CSM, Chico Picaza, Maria Victoria | |||
| Alfonso X, compositor Ferreira, Manuel pedro | |||
| Entre Ave y Eva: las mujeres de las Cantigas de Santa María. I. Madres y mujeres casadas Fidalgo, Elvira | |||
| Entre Ave y Eva: las mujeres de las Cantigas de Santa María. II. Las trabajadoras. III. Las Evas Fidalgo, Elvira | |||
| Viejos, viejas y alcahuetas. Consideraciones acerca de la vejez en las Cantigas de Santa María Fidalgo, Elvira | |||
| Os carteiros das Cantigas Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
| A retórica visual no Códice Rico das Cantigas de Santa María Iacob, Mihai | |||
| Alfonso X el Sabio, un rey ’cantigueiro’ Llorens Cistero, José María | |||
| Alfonso X the Learned. Cantigas de Santa Maria. An Anthology Parkinson, Stephen | |||
| Text-music mismatches in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Parkinson, Stephen | |||
| Antología de Alfonso el Sabio Peña, Margarita | |||
| Antecedentes celestinescos en las Cantigas de Santa María Sánchez Castañer y Mena, Francisco | |||
| La pecadora penitente en el teatro español: Sus fuentes y evolución Sánchez Castañer y Mena, Francisco | |||
| Personajes celestinescos en las Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio Sánchez Castañer y Mena, Francisco | |||
| Clues to the authorship of the Cantigas de Santa Maria from the Toledo manuscript Snow, Joseph | |||
| Alfonso X, el Sabio. Antología Solalinde, Antonio G. | |||