Alfonso X, the Learned : a biography /
Recent publications about King Alfonso X have tended to focus on his role as monarch in the context of the institutions of the realm. This book, however, emphasizes the human dimension of this extraordinary figure. Drawing on King Alfonsoa (TM)s own works and on extensive archival sources, both well...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010
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| Series: | Studies in the history of Christian traditions ;
v. 146. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The "Alfonsine era"
- The apprenticeship of a great king
- A prince's education
- Alfonso King
- The quest for the imperial crown
- Alfonso, King of the Romans
- Gregory X and the end of imperial ambitions
- Illness and intellectual pursuits
- The black decade (1269-1279)
- The nobles' rebellion
- Desnaturación
- The problems of succession
- Don Sancho is declared successor
- Deposition and civil war
- Don Sancho seeks the consolidation of power
- The last wills of Alfonso X
- Conclusion: In praise of knowledge.
