@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt9qdpf6.6,
 ISBN = {9781855661356},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdpf6.6},
 abstract = {As Berceo goes along his pilgrimage of life, he stumbles across a meadow: ‘caecí en un prado’ (2a). Although modern editors unanimously remind us that the verb is an apocopated form of ‘acaecer’, ‘to happen (upon)’, which derives from the Latincadere, ‘to fall’, in this context Berceo’s word choice is surely telling. As an allegory of the Virgin, this meadow is the space of redemption, and as such there is always an implied fall. Indeed, the fact of original sin underlies the entire allegorical introduction, which, as Michael Gerli has shown, plots ‘la Historia Universal del Hombre [y] traza},
 bookauthor = {JULIAN WEISS},
 booktitle = {The Mester de Clerecía: Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile},
 edition = {NED - New edition},
 pages = {26--66},
 publisher = {Boydell and Brewer},
 title = {Pollution and Perception in Gonzalo de Berceo’s Milagros de Nuestra Señora},
 year = {2006}
}