Gonzalo de Berceo (ca. 1190– before 1264) was a Spanish poet born in the Riojan village of Berceo, close to the major Benedictine monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" La Rioja is a province and autonomous community of northern Spain. Berceo is a municipality in La Rioja, Spain. It is located near the monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla and was the birthplace of Gonzalo de Berceo He is celebrated for his poems on religious subjects, written in a style of verse which has been called Mester de Clerecía, shared with more secular productions such as the Libro de Alexandre, the Libro de Apolonio. Mester de Clerecía ("Ministry of Clergy" is a Castilian literature Genre that can be understood as an opposition and surpassing of Mester He is considered the first Spanish poet known by name.
Gonzalo is recorded as being a deacon in his home parish in the early 1220s, and as a priest from 1237 on. Deacon is a role in the Christian Church that is generally associated with service of some kind but which varies among theological and denominational traditions It has been surmised that he may have studied in the nascent university of Palencia, and may have served in the curia of the bishop of Calahorra. Other use Palencia Guatemala. Palencia is a city south of Tierra de Campos, in north-northwest Spain, the capital of
He wrote devotional and theological works. The devotional may be divided into two sub-sections: the Marian (the long Milagros de Nuestra Seňora (Miracles of Our Lady - perhaps influenced by Gautier de Coincy), the Duelo de la Virgen (the Mourning of the Virgin, a dialogue between the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux) and Loores de la Virgen (the Praises of the Virgin, which is a type of salvation history); and the hagiographical (the Vida de San Millán de la Cogolla, Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos and the Vida de Santa Oria-the lives of Aemilian of la Cogolla, Dominic of Silos, and Oria). Recordings of Gautier de Coincy's Works The Harp Consort, Andrew Lawrence-King, Bernard of Clairvaux, OCist ( 1090 - August 20, 1153) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order Saint Dominic of Silos (Santo Domingo de Silos (1000— December 10, 1073) is a Spanish saint to whom the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos These three are saints have a strong regional attachment: Aemilian, a Visigothic saint, was patron of the near-by monastery; Dominic, 11th century abbot of Silos and one of the most important saints in thirteenth-century Spain, was born in the town of Cañas, near to Berceo; and Oria was an anchoress who lived in the monastery of San Millán during the late eleventh century. The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, or Wisi were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East He also wrote the fragmentary Martirio de San Lorenzo (the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, a Roman martyr of the third century), which may be connected to a shrine of Saint Lawrence supposedly built by Aemilian himself, at the top of the mountain below which the monastery of San Millán is situated.
The theological works are the Del sacrificio de la misa (On the Sacrifice of the Mass), a verse-compendium of the significance of the priest's actions during the eucharist; and Los signos del juicio final (the Signs of the Last Judgement), a description of the prodigies that will be witnessed before the return of Christ to judge the living and the dead.
His proximity to San Millán and his composition of hagiographies which seem to support the monastery's interests, have led him to be considered a propagandist for the narrow interests of the monastery of San Millán. Hagiography ( is the study of Saints. A hagiography, from Greek (hağios (ἅγιος "holy" or "saint" and graphē (γραφή This view has been propounded above all by Professor Brian Dutton, editor of Gonzalo de Berceo's collected works, although some critics (notably Fernando Baños and Isabel Uría Maqua) have taken a view which presents the poet as less motivated by his concerns for the monastery; others (particularly Gregory Andrachuk) have linked him to the Lateran reforms. Brian Dutton (born 12 April 1985 in Malton, England) is an English footballer who plays for Salisbury City.
References
- Capuano, Thomas M. Images of the Here-and-Now in Gonzalo de Bercero's "De los signos que apareceran ante del juicio". Essays in Medieval Studies, Proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association. (10) 65. 1993.
- BIBLIOTECA GONZALO DE BERCEO Complete works of poet Gonzalo de Berceo, glossary, historical documentation, biography, bibliography and a variety of other related resources.
- ALAN DEYERMOND, Gonzalo de Berceo y la poesía del siglo XIII
- M. GERLI, MILAGROS DE NUESTRA SEÑORA y LITERATURA MARIANA
- MILAGROS DE NUESTRA SEÑORA, ilustrados con grabados originales de A.BIOSCA
- MESTER DE CLERECÍA Y GONZALO DE BERCEO, P. Benito Somalo
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