The Learned King: The Reign of Alfonso X of Castile

by Joseph F. O'Callaghan

Overview

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812232264
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	08/29/1993
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1670L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Joseph F. O'Callaghan is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History, Fordham University. He is the author of The Last Crusade in the West and Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Editorial Reviews

Alfonso X of Castile-Leon (1252-1284), known to history as el Sabio, probably had no intellectual equal among his contemporaries. A scholar and a poet, he surrounded himself with artists and learned men whom he directed in a cultural enterprise that produced an exceptional number of literary, legal, historical, and scientific works not to be found anywhere else in 13th-century Europe. This history of the reign of Alfonso X combines chronological and topical approaches to objectively reassess the reign in the light of the considerable body of scholarship developed in the 20th century. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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