Daily Life Depicted in the Cantigas de Santa Maria John Dowland and North Africa

and North Africa

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Cecilia is the patron saint of music & musicians

for their sleep-inducing capacities

during the medieval period and the Renaissance

Daily Life Depicted in the Cantigas de Santa Maria John Dowland and North AfricaBy John E. Keller and Anette Grant Cash The hundreds of illuminated miniatures found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria , sponsored by King Alfonso X (1252 84), reveal many vistas of daily life in thirteenth century Spain. No other source provides such an encyclopedic view of all classes of medieval European society, from kings and popes to the lowest peasants. Men and women are seen farming, hunting, on pilgrimage, watching bullfights, in gambling dens,