Alfonso X, the Learned a biography /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martínez, H. Salvador
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 146.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The "Alfonsine era"
  • The apprenticeship of a great king
  • A prince's education
  • Alfonso King
  • The quest for the imperial crown
  • Alfonso, King of the Romans
  • Gregory X and the end of imperial ambitions
  • Illness and intellectual pursuits
  • The black decade (1269-1279)
  • The nobles' rebellion
  • Desnaturación
  • The problems of succession
  • Don Sancho is declared successor
  • Deposition and civil war
  • Don Sancho seeks the consolidation of power
  • The last wills of Alfonso X
  • Conclusion: In praise of knowledge.