[PDF] Alfonso X Su Reinado Y Su Legado Ocho Siglos Despues eBook

Author : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1512805459

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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.

Author : H. Salvador Martínez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9004193421

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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.

Author : Shelby Thacker
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0813193680

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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.

Author : Julio Valdeón Baruque
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :

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Poeta, historiador, astrónomo y jurista, Alfonso X (1221-1284) fue uno de los monarcas más brillantes y decisivos de la historia de España. Su figura emerge con luz propia entre las tinieblas de la Edad Media y se impone con renovada fuerza en nuestros días como un claro impulsor de las ciencias y del arte, lo que le valió el apelativo universal de "rey Sabio".En esta biografía definitiva, Julio Valdeón realiza un recorrido por la trayectoria vital, intelectual y política de Alfonso X, desde su exquisita formación cultural y sus primeras victorias militares hasta el amargo final de su reinado, cuando -traicionado por su propio hijo- decidía la repartición de sus reinos.

Author : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 150173590X

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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.