The Lady Half-Devoured by a Dragon and the Iconography of St Margaret of Antioch: Interpreting an Anonymous Invención in the Cancionero general (11CG-517) Roger Boase Queen Mary University of London
[email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6801-8598 Received 16/06/2017; accepted 30/01/2018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.7203/MCLM.5.10383 Abstract Following in the footsteps of Ian Macpherson, I offer an interpretation of an anonymous invención found in the Cancionero general (11CG-517) and the British Library Cancionero (LB1-251). I maintain that the image displayed by the jouster was inspired by the iconography of the virgin-martyr St Margaret of Antioch, and I propose a theory about the identity of the lady addressed and, with less certainty, about the identity of the jouster and the occasion when the invención was displayed, using Pinar’s Juego trobado as a tool of research and invoking a passage on the sinfulness of the fashion among ladies and damsels for wearing hooped petticoats in a treatise by Hernando de Talavera. Keywords invenciones; court ladies, St Margaret; Golden Legend; Hernando de Talavera; Alfonso de Palencia; farthingale; pregnancy; Margarita de Lemos; Cancionero general; Pinar; Juana de Portugal; Enrique IV; Queen Isabel; Mencía de Lemos; Cardinal Mendoza; Marquis of Zenete; Pedro de Cartagena; Jorge Manrique; Beatriz de Bobadilla “the Huntress”; Columbus; Rodrigo Girón; Pedro Fajardo; Diego de San Pedro Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals 5, 2018, 1-17. http://ojs.uv.es/index.php/MCLM ISSN 2386-8295 2 Boase, ‘The Lady Half-Devoured by a Dragon...’ resumen Siguiendo los pasos de Ian Macpherson, ofrezco una interpretación de una invención anónima que se encuentra en el Cancionero general (11CG-517) y el Cancionero de la British Library (LB1-251).