Alfonso X of Castile-León : Royal Patronage, Self-Promotion and Manuscripts in Thirteenth-century Spain /
Alfonso X 'the Learned' of Castile (1252-1284) was praised in his lifetime as a king who devoted himself to discovering all worldly and divine knowledge. He commissioned chronicles and law codes and composed poems to the Virgin Mary, he gathered together Jewish scholars to translate works...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Dutch |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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Colección: | Church, faith, and culture in the Medieval West.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : 'the king makes a book'
- Alfonso X, his literary patronage, and the verdict of historians
- Alfonso in his texts : literary models and royal authorship
- Reality, politics, and precedent in images of Alfonso
- Codices laid out for a king : the appearance and production of Alfonsine manuscripts
- The circulation of Alfonsine texts : astrological works and chronicles.