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Chronicle of Alfonso X

Author : Shelby Thacker
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813193680
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Chronicle of Alfonso X written by Shelby Thacker and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfonso X (1221–1284) reigned as king of Castile and León from 1252 until his death. Known to history as El Sabio, the Wise, or the Learned, his appreciation for science and the arts led him to sponsor a number of books on the history of Spain since its Roman settlement. Among them were the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of over four hundred poems exalting his favorite patron saint, Mary, and chronicles of all the kings of Castile and León, Navarre, Aragón, and Portugal. Alfonso X died before his own life could be written. His was a reign fraught with political intrigue and double crosses, almost constant war and equally constant diplomacy, royal largesse and economic instability—all of which led to open revolt and efforts by Alfonso's own son to depose the king. It would be another sixty-some years before King Alfonso XI would commission Fernán Sánchez de Valladolid to write Cronica de Alfonso X to memorialize his great-grandfather. As Alfonso XI's trusted counselor, ambassador, diplomat, and legist, Fernán was an understandable choice, but in the centuries since, his convoluted prose has proven extremely difficult extremely difficult for scholars. Chronicle of Alfonso X is the first and only translation of the king's history. The original "clumsy Castilian" of Fernán Sánchez has now been transformed into literate and engaging English.

Alfonso X and the Cantigas De Santa Maria

Author : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004110236
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Alfonso X and the Cantigas De Santa Maria written by Joseph F. O'Callaghan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the "Cantigas de Santa Maria," a collection of about four hundred poems written in Galician, Alfonso X, el Sabio, king of Castile-Leon, has left us a kind of poetic biography. This volume explicates the historical circumstances surrounding the stories that the king tells about himself and his kingdom. As Mary's troubadour, he appeals to her as his advocate and consoler.

Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age

Author : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150173590X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age written by Joseph F. O'Callaghan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magisterial work, Joseph O'Callaghan offers a detailed account of the establishment of Alfonso X's legal code, the Libro de las leyes or Siete Partidas, and its applications in the daily life of thirteenth-century Iberia, both within and far beyond the royal courts. O'Callaghan argues that Alfonso X, el Sabio (the Wise), was the Justinian of his age, one of the truly great legal minds of human history. Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age highlights the struggles the king faced in creating a new, coherent, inclusive, and all-embracing body of law during his reign, O'Callaghan also considers Alfonso X's own understanding of his role as king, lawgiver, and defender of the faith in order to evaluate the impact of his achievement on the administration of justice. Indeed, such was the power and authority of the Alfonsine code that it proved the king's downfall when his son invoked it to challenge his rule. Throughout this soaring legal and historical biography, O'Callaghan reminds us of the long-term impacts of Alfonso X's legal works, not just on Castilian (and later, Iberian) life, but on the administration of justice across the world.

The Poetry of Alfonso X, El Sabio

Author : Joseph T. Snow
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780729300421
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Alfonso X, El Sabio written by Joseph T. Snow and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 1977 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Learned King

Author : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512805459
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Learned King written by Joseph F. O'Callaghan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

The Wise King

Author : Simon R. Doubleday
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465073913
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Wise King written by Simon R. Doubleday and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If I had been present at the Creation,” the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, “Many faults in the universe would have been avoided.” Known as El Sabio, “the Wise,” Alfonso was renowned by friends and enemies alike for his sparkling intellect and extraordinary cultural achievements. In The Wise King, celebrated historian Simon R. Doubleday traces the story of the king's life and times, leading us deep into his emotional world and showing how his intense admiration for Spain's rich Islamic culture paved the way for the European Renaissance. In 1252, when Alfonso replaced his more militaristic father on the throne of Castile and León, the battle to reconquer Muslim territory on the Iberian Peninsula was raging fiercely. But even as he led his Christian soldiers onto the battlefield, Alfonso was seduced by the glories of Muslim Spain. His engagement with the Arabic-speaking culture of the South shaped his pursuit of astronomy, for which he was famed for centuries, and his profoundly humane vision of the world, which Dante, Petrarch, and later Italian humanists would inherit. A composer of lyric verses, and patron of works on board games, hunting, and the properties of stones, Alfonso is best known today for his Cantigas de Santa María (Songs of Holy Mary), which offer a remarkable window onto his world. His ongoing struggles as a king and as a man were distilled—in art, music, literature, and architecture—into something sublime that speaks to us powerfully across the centuries. An intimate biography of the Spanish ruler in whom two cultures converged, The Wise King introduces readers to a Renaissance man before his time, whose creative energy in the face of personal turmoil and existential threats to his kingdom would transform the course of Western history.

Alfonso X, the Learned

Author : H. Salvador Martínez
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004193421
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Alfonso X, the Learned written by H. Salvador Martínez and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly groundbreaking book, presenting a portrait of Alfonso X, monarch and medieval intellectual par excellence, and the extraordinary cultural history of Spain at that time.

El legado de Alfonso X

Author : Miguel Rodríguez Llopis
Publisher : Editora Regional de Murcia
ISBN 13 : 9788475641980
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book El legado de Alfonso X written by Miguel Rodríguez Llopis and published by Editora Regional de Murcia. This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Emperor of Culture

Author : Robert I. Burns, S.J.
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512800953
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Emperor of Culture written by Robert I. Burns, S.J. and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfonso X of Castile (1252-1284) was a true philosopher-king, a medieval monarch whose contributions to science, music, historiography, poetry, fiction, and art have had lasting influence. His grand vision was to bring Castile into the mainstream of high civilization and to create a united artistic and religious people. To that end, he established Castilian as a proper language (it is now the fourth most spoken in the world) and wrote one of the most extensive and influential law codes in western history. After centuries of attention to the northern European countries, scholars increasingly are turning to Hispanic countries in general and to Alfonso's vast influence in particular. The contributors to this volume are all Alfonsine experts who offer the broadest and most comprehensive survey of the ruler's cultural influence. Their topics include Alfonso's role in the founding of Castilian, his patronage of art and theatre, his scientific projects, his rhetoric and chancery, his link to Dante, his achievements as historian and troubadour, and his contribution as the greatest lawgiver of his time. Emperor of Culture fills a gap in English language studies of Alfonso's vast influence. It will be valuable to all students and scholars of medieval Spain.

The Scope of History

Author : Charles F. Fraker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472106691
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Scope of History written by Charles F. Fraker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the histories of Alfonso el Sabio as a valuable framework

The Legislative Works of Alfonso X, El Sabio

Author : Jerry Russell Craddock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Legislative Works of Alfonso X, El Sabio written by Jerry Russell Craddock and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alfonso X, the Cortes, and Government in Medieval Spain

Author : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Alfonso X, the Cortes, and Government in Medieval Spain by : Joseph F. O'Callaghan

Download or read book Alfonso X, the Cortes, and Government in Medieval Spain written by Joseph F. O'Callaghan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies included in this volume, written over a period of nearly thirty years, deal principally with two major themes, namely, the reign of Alfonso X, el Sabio (1252-84), one of the great kings of medieval Spain, and the development of the cortes of Castile-León, a characteristc example of the emergence of European representative parliamentary institutions. An introductory study describes the integration of medieval Spain into western Europe in the late eleventh century.

The Medieval Chronicle 13

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004428569
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Chronicle 13 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. Their significance as sources for the study of medieval history and culture is today widely recognised not only by historians, but also by students of medieval literature and linguistics and by art historians. The series The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds.

The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo

Author : José Chabás
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401702136
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo written by José Chabás and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo is for historians working in the fields of astronomy, science, the Middle Ages, Spanish and other Romance languages. It is also of interest to scholars interested in the history of Castile, in Castilian-French relations in the Middle Ages and in the history of patronage. It explores the Castilian canons of the Alfonsine Tables and offers a study of their context, language, astronomical content, and diffusion. The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo is unique in that it: includes an edition of a crucial text in history of science; provides an explanation of astronomy as it was practiced in the Middle Ages; presents abundant material on early scientific language in Castilian; presents new material on the diffusion of Alfonsine astronomy in Europe; describes the role of royal patronage of science in a medieval context.

Songs of Holy Mary of Alfonso X, the Wise

Author : Alfonso X (King of Castile and Leon)
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Songs of Holy Mary of Alfonso X, the Wise written by Alfonso X (King of Castile and Leon) and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 2000 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few truly masterly works in literature, music, and graphic arts have been as sadly neglected as the thirteenth-century Cantigas de Santa Maria of King Alfonso X, "el Sabio" (1221 1284). This collection of 420 poems and songs was written not in Castilian but in Galician-Portuguese, an important spoken and literary language in the Middle Ages that is little understood today. Kulp-Hill's text is the first English translation of this important work. In the poems, a colorful panorama of medieval life unfolds, reflecting a vast array of historical, cultural, linguistic, folklorist, and aesthetic interests and information. The Cantigas contribute to the well-established medieval verse genre relating miraculous events attributed to Mary.--Publisher.

Alfonso X of Castile

Author : Evelyn Stefanos Procter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Alfonso X of Castile written by Evelyn Stefanos Procter and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Routledge Revivals: Medieval Iberia (2003)

Author : E Michael Gerli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351665782
Total Pages : 951 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Medieval Iberia (2003) written by E Michael Gerli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003, Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, is the first comprehensive reference to the vital world of medieval Spain. This unique volume focuses on the Iberian kingdoms from the fall of the Roman Empire to the aftermath of the Reconquista and encompass topics of key relevance to medieval Iberia, including people, events, works, and institutions, as well as interdisciplinary coverage of literature, language, history, arts, folklore, religion, and science. It also provides in-depth discussions of the rich contributions of Muslim and Jewish cultures, and offers useful insights into their interactions with Catholic Spain. With nearly 1,000 signed A-Z entries and written by renowned specialists in the field, this comprehensive work is an invaluable tool for students, scholars, and general readers alike.