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UNINA9910494589603321 |
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Autore |
Kennedy Kirstin |
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Alfonso X of Castile-León : royal patronage, self-promotion and manuscripts in thirteenth-century Spain / / Kirstin Kennedy [[electronic resource]] |
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Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2019 |
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1 online resource (228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Church, faith, and culture in the Medieval West |
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Authors and patrons - Spain - History |
Books and reading - Spain - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020). |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: 'the king makes a book' -- 1. Alfonso X, his Literary Patronage, and the Verdict of Historians -- 2. Alfonso in his Texts: literary models and royal authorship -- 3. Reality, Politics, and Precedent in Images of Alfonso -- 4. Codices Laid Out for a King : the appearance and production of Alfonsine manuscripts -- 5. The Circulation of Alfonsine Texts: astrological works and chronicles -- Concluding Remarks -- Manuscript Sources -- Index |
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Alfonso X 'the Learned' of Castile (1252-1284) was praised in his lifetime as a king who devoted himself to discovering all worldly and divine knowledge. He commissioned chronicles and law codes and composed poems to the Virgin Mary, he gathered together Jewish scholars to translate works of Arab astrology and astronomy, and he founded a university of Latin and Arabic studies at Seville. Moreover, according to his nephew Juan Manuel, Alfonso was careful to ensure that 'he had leisure to look into things he wanted for himself'. The level of his personal involvement in this literary activity marks him out as an exceptional patron in any period. However, Alfonso's relationship with the arts also had much in common with that of other thirteenth-century European royal patrons, among them his first cousin, Louis IX of France. Like his contemporaries, he relentlessly used literary works as a vehicle to promote his royal status and advance his claim to the |
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imperial crown. His motivation for the foundation of the university at Seville was arguably political rather than educational, and instead of promoting institutional learning during his reign, Alfonso preferred to direct the messages about his kingship in the lavish manuscripts he patronized to a restricted, courtly audience. Yet such was the interest of the works he commissioned, that those who could obtain copies did so, even if these were still incomplete drafts. Three codices traditionally held to have been copied for Alfonso in fact show how this learning reserved for the few began to filter out beyond the Learned King's immediate circle. |
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UNISA996466108203316 |
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Randomization and approximation techniques in computer science : second international workshop RANDOM '98, Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998 : proceedings / / Michael Luby, JoseÌ Rolim, Maria Serna (editors) |
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Berlin ; ; Heidelberg : , : Springer, , [1998] |
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©1998 |
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[1st ed. 1998.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (IX, 385 p.) |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 1518 |
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Computer science - Statistical methods |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Invited Paper -- Disjoint Paths in Expander Graphs via Random Walks: a Short Survey -- Regular Papers -- A Derandomization Using Min-Wise Independent Permutations -- An Algorithmic Embedding of Graphs via Perfect Matchings -- Deterministic Hypergraph Coloring and Its Applications -- On the Derandomization of Space-Bounded Computations -- Talagrand’s Inequality and Locality in Distributed Computing -- On-line Bin-Stretching -- Combinatorial Linear Programming: Geometry Can Help -- A Note on Bounding the Mixing Time by Linear Programming -- Robotic Exploration, Brownian Motion |
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and Electrical Resistance -- Fringe analysis of synchronized parallel algorithms on 2–3 trees -- On Balls and Bins with Deletions -- “Balls into Bins” — A Simple and Tight Analysis -- Invited Paper -- Tornado Codes: Practical Erasure Codes Based on Random Irregular Graphs -- Regular Papers -- Using Approximation Hardness to Achieve Dependable Computation -- Complexity of Sequential Pattern Matching Algorithms -- A Random Server Model for Private Information Retrieval -- Almost Optimal (on the average) Combinatorial Algorithms for Boolean Matrix Product Witnesses, Computing the Diameter (Extended Abstract) -- Randomized Lower Bounds for Online Path Coloring -- Parallel Random Search and Tabu Search for the Minimal Consistent Subset Selection Problem -- On Various Cooling Schedules for Simulated Annealing Applied to the Job Shop Problem -- A High Performance Approximate Algorithm for the Steiner Problem in Graphs -- Invited Paper -- Random Geometric Problems on [0, 1]2 -- Regular Papers -- A Role of Constraint in Self-Organization -- Constructive Bounds and Exact Expectations for the Random Assignment Problem -- The “Burnside Process” Converges Slowly -- Quicksort Again Revisited -- Sampling Methods Applied to Dense Instances of Non-Boolean Optimization Problems -- Second-Order Methods for Distributed Approximate Single- and Multicommodity Flow. |
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