“Este que sigue es poeta santo”: la construcción de las imágenes autoriales de Miguel Cid durante los siglos XVII–XVIII

Abstract This article studies how the biographical accounts of Miguel Cid have been constructed based on certain resources typical of the lives of saints and heroes. To this end, it outlines an overview of the works that contain part of his biography. In this way, it explores the legend created around this writer and his relationship with the Immaculate Conception. Secondly, it offers an analysis of the authorial images projected by these narratives, as well as of the canonization strategies that were used to fix an image of Cid, capable to endure in the collective imagination.