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  title info:
    title: Alfonso X of Castile-León
    sub title: royal patronage, self-promotion and manuscripts in thirteenth-century Spain
  name:
    name part: Kennedy, Kirstin
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 228 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Today, the literary patronage of Alfonso X 'the Learned' of Castile (1252-1284) seems extraordinary for its time in the context of Europe. His cultural program, which promoted his royal status and imperial ambitions, was hugely ambitious, and the paucity of information about the intellectual circumstances in which it took place magnifies the scope of Alfonso's achievements still further. This book argues that rather than providing a new cultural template for his kingdoms, Alfonso did little to promote institutional learning and preferred instead to direct the literary works he commissioned to a restricted, courtly audience who would understand the complex layers of symbolism in the representations of him that accompanied the texts. Despite this careful control, this book cites codicological and paleographical evidence to show that some codices traditionally ascribed to the royal scriptorium were copied at the behest of readers beyond the king's immediate circle.
  table of contents: Introduction : "the king makes a book" -- Alfonso X, his literary patronage, and the verdict of historians -- Alfonso in this 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.
  note: Kirstin Kennedy.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-sp---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: X, King of Castile and Leon
      name part: Alfonso
      name part: 1221-1284
  subject:
    name:
      name part: X, King of Castile and Leon
      name part: Alfonso
      name part: 1221-1284
    topic: Books and reading
  subject:
    topic: Authors and patrons
    geographic: Spain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Books and reading
    geographic: Spain
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Spain
    topic: Intellectual life
    temporal: 711-1516
  classification: DP140.3 .K75 2019
  classification: 946/.02092
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Church, faith, and culture in the Medieval West
  identifier: 9789462988972
  identifier: 9462988978
  identifier: 9789048541386
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190325
    record change date: 20200117104459.0
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