Alfonso X, the Learned - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alfonso X, the Learned write by H. Salvador Mart Nez. This book was released on 2010. Alfonso X, the Learned available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Alfonso X, the Learned, 'Cantigas de Santa Maria': an Anthology
Alfonso X, the Learned, 'Cantigas de Santa Maria': an Anthology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alfonso X, the Learned, 'Cantigas de Santa Maria': an Anthology write by Stephen Parkinson. This book was released on 2015-04-07. Alfonso X, the Learned, 'Cantigas de Santa Maria': an Anthology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A selection of the 13th-century Galician Cantigas de Santa Maria commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile in a new edition produced by the Oxford CSM Critical Edition project, with critical apparatus. The order of poems will replicate the distinctive internal structure of the main compilations and the edition will make these texts available in a form suitable as a set text for student use, with an introduction placing them in their historical, cultural and linguistic context, and with English translations.
Emperor of Culture
Emperor of Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emperor of Culture write by Robert I. Burns, S.J.. This book was released on 2015-09-30. Emperor of Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Chronicle of Alfonso X
Chronicle of Alfonso X - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chronicle of Alfonso X write by Shelby Thacker. This book was released on 2014-10-17. Chronicle of Alfonso X available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Learned King
The Learned King - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Learned King write by Joseph F. O'Callaghan. This book was released on 2016-11-11. The Learned King available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
