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Chronicle of Alfonso X: Studies in Romance Languages, cartea 47

Autor Fernan Sanchez de Valladolid, Joseph F. O'Callaghan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iul 2002

Alfonso X (1221--1284) reigned as king of Castile and Leon 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 Leon, Navarre, Aragon, 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 Fernan Sanchez de Valladolid to write "Cronica de Alfonso X" to memorialize his great-grandfather. As Alfonso XI's trusted counselor, ambassador, diplomat, and legist, Fernan 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 Fernan Sanchez has now been transformed into literate and engaging English."

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ISBN-13: 9780813122182
ISBN-10: 081312218X
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 162 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: University Press of Kentucky
Seria Studies in Romance Languages


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Shelby Thacker is a professor of Spanish at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. Jose Escobar is associate professor of Spanish at the College of Charleston. Joseph F. O'Callaghan is a professor of history at Fordham University and is the author of many books and articles on medieval Spain, including The Learned King: The Reign of Alfonso X of Castile.