Abstract
,i,@NALYZING narrative technique in medieval Smanuscript miniatures and their accompanying texts and achieving some sort of synoptic vision A sof the two was thought unproblematic only a few * * years ago. Despite strong contributions toward S'a theory of narratology in medieval studies,1 many researchers are no longer sure that we can believe in the stability of narrative in either text or images, let alone hope to make the two genuinely congruent. My own attempt here to justify a joint reading of the supposedly linear verbal narratives in the Cantigas of Alfonso X (1221-84) with the manuscript miniatures he commissioned and supervised is meant to suggest the possibility of a match-up, at least in this case, for somewhat curious reasons. Against expectations, it is the narrative discourse in the miniatures of the c6dice rico copy of the Cantigas that is apparently progressive and linear, while the lyrics with which the images are teamed loop back on themselves in a non-linear way.2
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