Chronicle of Alfonso X /

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Imprint:Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.
Description:1 online resource (280 pages).
Language:English
Series:Studies in Romance Languages ; 47
Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 47.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11906981
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Other authors / contributors:Thacker, Shelby, 1956-
Escobar, José (Spanish professor)
ISBN:9780813158884
0813158885
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Selected Bibliography and Index.
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Summary: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 cros.
Other form:Print version: Thacker, Shelby. Chronicle of Alfonso X. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813122182