LEADER 03782nam 22004812 450 001 9910494589603321 005 20211022005003.0 010 $a90-485-4138-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9789048541386 035 $a(CKB)4100000008617087 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5808050 035 $a(DE-B1597)534699 035 $a(OCoLC)1107596386 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048541386 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789048541386 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008617087 100 $a20201022d2019|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlfonso X of Castile-Leo?n $eroyal patronage, self-promotion and manuscripts in thirteenth-century Spain /$fKirstin Kennedy$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cAmsterdam University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (228 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aChurch, faith, and culture in the Medieval West 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020). 311 0 $a94-6298-897-8 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgements --$tList of Figures --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction: 'the king makes a book' --$t1. Alfonso X, his Literary Patronage, and the Verdict of Historians --$t2. Alfonso in his Texts: literary models and royal authorship --$t3. Reality, Politics, and Precedent in Images of Alfonso --$t4. Codices Laid Out for a King : the appearance and production of Alfonsine manuscripts --$t5. The Circulation of Alfonsine Texts: astrological works and chronicles --$tConcluding Remarks --$tManuscript Sources --$tIndex 330 $aAlfonso X 'the Learned' of Castile (1252-1284) was praised in his lifetime as a king who devoted himself to discovering all worldly and divine knowledge. He commissioned chronicles and law codes and composed poems to the Virgin Mary, he gathered together Jewish scholars to translate works of Arab astrology and astronomy, and he founded a university of Latin and Arabic studies at Seville. Moreover, according to his nephew Juan Manuel, Alfonso was careful to ensure that 'he had leisure to look into things he wanted for himself'. The level of his personal involvement in this literary activity marks him out as an exceptional patron in any period. However, Alfonso's relationship with the arts also had much in common with that of other thirteenth-century European royal patrons, among them his first cousin, Louis IX of France. Like his contemporaries, he relentlessly used literary works as a vehicle to promote his royal status and advance his claim to the imperial crown. His motivation for the foundation of the university at Seville was arguably political rather than educational, and instead of promoting institutional learning during his reign, Alfonso preferred to direct the messages about his kingship in the lavish manuscripts he patronized to a restricted, courtly audience. Yet such was the interest of the works he commissioned, that those who could obtain copies did so, even if these were still incomplete drafts. Three codices traditionally held to have been copied for Alfonso in fact show how this learning reserved for the few began to filter out beyond the Learned King's immediate circle. 410 0$aChurch, faith, and culture in the Medieval West. 606 $aAuthors and patrons$zSpain$xHistory 606 $aBooks and reading$zSpain$xHistory 615 0$aAuthors and patrons$xHistory. 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory. 676 $a946.02092 700 $aKennedy$b Kirstin$0731476 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910494589603321 996 $aAlfonso X of Castile-Leo?n$92451958 997 $aUNINA