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The expression «valenciana prosa» , used from the XVth century onwards by writers like Roís de Corella, Miquel Peres, Bernardí de Vallmanya, and others, has been interpreted in different and sometimes contradictory ways (Rubió i Lluch, Nicolau d'Olwer, Riquer, Fuster, Coromines, etc). The author of this article considers it to be a mere way of outlining the fact that a given text was written in «lengua valenciana», this is to say in the modality of the Catalan Language used in Valencia, and that does not therefore relate to any specific literary style.

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Abstract: In this paper I discuss the whole of Marian miracles included by Miquel Peres in La vida de la sacratíssima Verge Maria (Valencia, N. Spindeler, 1494). This set of miracles not only highlights the specific functionality acquired in the structure of the work, but it also incorporates certain characteristics that differentiate them from collections of Marian miracula, as they lack of some of the most significant features of the genre. Miquel Peres miracles are evidence of the transformation and secularization of the genre, and they show new uses and new readers whom are addressed to. Keywords: marian miracles, marian literature, hagiography, Miquel Peres, vita Mariae.