María Pérez Balteira

Miniature from the Cancioneiro da Ajuda, showing a soldadeira (right) dancing and playing the pandeiro.

María Pérez (fl. 13th-century), called La Balteira ("the Balteira"), was a Galician trobairitz and soldadeira.

Life

María Pérez was a composer and singer who wrote sacred plainsong, performed in the courts of Europe, and was somewhat of an adventurer.[1]

She was popular at the courts of Ferdinand III of Castile and Alfonso X of Castile, and the latter dedicated a song to her.

References

Citations

  1. ^ Commire, ed. 2007. p. 1,498.

Bibliography

  • Abelleira, Fernando Magán (1996). Lírica profana galego-potuguesa. Vol. 1. Galicia: Centro Ramón Piñeiro. pp. 39, 149, 421.
  • Abelleira, Fernando Magán (2007). "María Pérez, Balteira, ou, María Balteira na literatura medieval. Escolma de textos". Consello da Cultura Galega, Comisión de Igualdade. pp. 1–13.
  • Alvar, Carlos (1985). "María Pérez, Balteira". Aragonese Philology Archive, no. 36. pp. 11–40.
  • Amil, Iván Fernández (22 November 2020). "María Pérez la Balteira, la gallega que conquistó Jerusalén y la Corte de Alfonso X". Quincemil, El Español. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  • Campo, Marica (2007). "María Balteira". Álbum de mulleres. Consello da Cultura Galega. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  • Commire, Anne, ed. (2001). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol. 12: O–Q. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, Gale Group. ISBN 0787640719, 9780787640712.
  • Commire, Anne, ed. (2007). "Perez, Maria". In Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women through the Ages. Vol. 2: M–Z. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale. p. 1,498.
  • Díaz, Esther Corral (2016). "Maria Balteira, a Woman Crusader of Outremer". In Gonzáles-Paz, Carlos Andrés (ed.). Women and Pilgrimage in Medieval Galicia. Routledge: New York: pp. 65–80.
  • Lopes, Maria da Graça Videira (1994). A Sátira nos cancioneiros medievais galego-portugueses. Lisbon: Imprensa universitária, editorial estampa. pp. 221–225. ISBN 9723310791.
  • Ventura, Joaquim (September 2017). "O contrato de de María Pérez Balteira con Sobrado". Grial: revista galega de cultura, vol. LV, no. 215. pp. 134–141.
  • Ruiz, Joaquim Ventura (2015). "A verdadeira cruzada de María Pérez «Balteira»". In Alvar, Carlos (ed.). Estudios de literatura medieval en la Península Ibérica. San Millán de la Cogolla: Cilengua. pp. 1,167–1,182.