Devoción. Obra Literaria de historia medieval

Devotion is a literary work that was temporarily located in the eleventh century, the story is set in Spain, itself in the city of Navarra. Here religious and social activities typical of the medieval period are presented, which enriches the descriptions of the spaces of everyday life. Importantly,...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Gamboa Zúñiga, Inés Fernanda
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2015
Country:Costa Rica
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repository:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/22623
Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/estudios/article/view/22623
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:devoción
San Jorge
monasterio
peregrinación
amor
devotion
monastery
pilgrimage
love
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Summary:Devotion is a literary work that was temporarily located in the eleventh century, the story is set in Spain, itself in the city of Navarra. Here religious and social activities typical of the medieval period are presented, which enriches the descriptions of the spaces of everyday life. Importantly, the central character in the story is a woman, who live different situations that show what it meant to be for this period of history. Leonor, named by the main features of nature, lives near a monastery and has a clear devotion to one of the saints of the Catholic Church, San Jorge, which leads her on a relentless quest to achieve in all areas of his life perfectly shown by him. Love, work, religion and how the days go for the central character; they respond to social and cultural characteristics of the inhabitants of the Spanish countryside at the time