Joan BORJA I SANZ

Saint Vincent Ferrer in Valencian popular imaginary: a ethnopoetics approach to narrative cycle of Vincentians miracles

Sant Vicent Ferrer en l’imaginari popular valencià: una aproximació etnopoètica al cicle narratiu dels miracles vicentins

Published in Nicholas of Cusa in Dialogue 

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This paper focusses on the productive narrative cycle by St. Vincent Ferrer in Valencian cultural context, from a repertoire of over forty stories. The analysis allows to state and explain a curious phenomenon. That is: regardless of the real and historical biography, legends about St. Vincent Ferrer respond to idiosyncratic grammar of fantasy, and they are like a mirror which is projected and reflected the ethnohistorical personality of the Valencian people.