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| CSM Number : 99 | |||
| Short name: | The Moors who Tried to Destroy an Image of the Virgin | Alternative: | Saracens Cannot Deface Mary-Image |
| Incipit: | Muito se deven tẽer/ por gentes de mal recado | ||
| Refrain: | Muito sse deven tẽer/ por gentes de mal recado/ os que mal cuidan fazer/ aa de que Deus foi nado. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | unspecified | Protagonist(s): | a Moorish army |
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Some Moors captured a Christian city. They entered a church and began to destroy the altar and all of the images. They saw a particularly beautiful one and tried to smash it. The Virgin prevented them from breaking the image and it bore no signs of damage. The Moors thought that they were going to die there. They realised that God was punishing them for desecrating the church. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 7 7 7 7' 7 7' | Refrain: | 7 7' 7 7' |
| No. of Stanzas: | 7 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | ABAB | aaabab | Zejel: | Yes |
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| T99, E99 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| Pauci admodum anni sunt quod Sarazeni a Babylonis imp. (1199) | |||
| Keywords | |||
| iconoclasts, image (of Virgin Mary), images (other), Muslims/Moors, warfare | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| Miracle | Collection | ||
| Saracens Cannot Deface Mary-Image | Vincent de Beauvais |
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| Saracens Cannot Deface Mary-Image | William of Malmesbury |
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| Saracens Cannot Deface Mary-Image | Adgar (London, BL, Egerton 612) |
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| Saracens Cannot Deface Mary-Image | Johannes Herolt |
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| Saracens Cannot Deface Mary-Image | Anglo-Norman Miracles of the Virgin (London, BL, Royal 20 B XIV, fols 102v-169) |
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| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3816 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| The Cantigas, or ’Songs of Praise of St. Mary’ Burns, Robert I. | |||
| La guerra en Andalucía: Aproximaciones a la retórica visual de las Cantigas de Santa María Corti, Francisco | |||
| El arte mayor de Juan de Mena Hanssen, Friedrich | |||
| Shields of faith: apotropaic images of the Virgin in Alfonso X\'s Cantigas de Santa María Jackson, Deirdre Elizabeth | |||
| Alfonso X el Sabio y la pintura sobre tabla Sánchez Cantón, Francisco Javier | |||