"Atal allur a catade": Recuperación figural de la Antigüedad pagana en las Cantigas de Santa Marí­a de Alfonso X

Abstract

There is a figural or typological nexus between the historical event told in Cantigas de Santa Marí­a 205 and a fragment of the Estoria de España, both alphonsine works which are not usually studied in connection. This feature, which is only a sample of the rich use of typology in the cancionero, is an evidence of an intended symbolic ( ®allegorical ¼) recovery and overcoming of the pagan past, in the wider context of alphonsine texts, including also Setenario.