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I do not know where the actual compilation comes form, but there are
some common metaphors put together:
1) Mary as new Eve, therefore the regained paradise, from where the
four rivers are coming in the world, which are symbols for the four
gospels ...
2) Mary as mother of christ, who is the Word, the "veritas", the truth
...
3) Mary as teacher of the apostels, because she kept all in her mind
what her son said.
New for me is the emendation, thank you for this nice motif. Perhaps
anybody knows more about it.
Yours
b.k.
Am 21. Mär 2005 um 14:25 Uhr schrieb F. Thomas Luongo:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture A student brought to my attention a passage in the Milagros
> de Nuestra Señora by the 13th-century Castilian poet Gonzalo de
> Berceo, in which the Virgin Mary acts as an editor of the gospels. In
> the passage in question, Gonzalo develops a metaphor in which the
> Virgin is compared to a meadow, and Gospels as four rivers that flow
> out of the meadow; Mary is the source of the Gospels and the
> Gospel-writers spoke to her as they wrote. Here's the key section in
> English; I have the Castilian too if anyone wants it:
>
> Everything they wrote, She emended.
> That which She praised was indeed true.
> It seems that She was the source from which all waters flowed,
> while without Her nothing received guidance.
>
> This is completely new to me. Is it an image that appears elsewhere,
> or is it unique to Gonzalo de Berceo? I am especially interested in
> this representation of the Virgin as an editor of the Gospels.
>
> Tom
>
>
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