Alcalde Vs. Mayor: Translating the Colonial World

2013 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Schwaller
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Alfonso X ◽  
Legal Term ◽  
Siete Partidas

In studying the nuances of any legal term from the colonial period in Latin America it is always good to have recourse to the Siete Partidas, the compilation of royal law promulgated, and some say written, by the famous thirteenth-century Castilian monarch, Alfonso X, often called “The Wise.”

Alcalde Vs. Mayor: Translating the Colonial World

2013 ◽  
Vol 69 (03) ◽  
pp. 391-400
Author(s):  
John F. Schwaller
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Alfonso X ◽  
Legal Term ◽  
Siete Partidas

In studying the nuances of any legal term from the colonial period in Latin America it is always good to have recourse to the Siete Partidas, the compilation of royal law promulgated, and some say written, by the famous thirteenth-century Castilian monarch, Alfonso X, often called “The Wise.”

XXIII.—The Thirteenth Century Legal Attitude Toward Woman in Spain

PMLA ◽  
1921 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 492-507 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Alfonso X ◽  
Siete Partidas ◽  
The Law ◽  
Source Of Information

The chief source of information concerning the legal attitude toward woman in the thirteenth century is the Código de las Siete Partidas, compiled during the reign of Alfonso X, and representing an attempt to bring order out of the legal chaos then existent and to substitute a general code for the local fueros. The few generalities to be made about the compilation itself can be summed up briefly.As to the sources, Martínez Marina states that Roman laws—Decretals, Digest, Code, Pandects—were used, and complains that in the first and fourth Partidas the laws of the Gothic codes and the municipal fueros were omitted, and Castilian customs were disregarded. The identity of the authors is open to question, although they were undoubtedly selected from the leading jurisconsults of the day. Ureña calls attention to the marked development in the use of a legal terminology in Spanish which is substituted for Latin, previously the language of the law.

scholarly journals LEI, TRADIÇÃO E MEMÓRIA NA CONTROVERSA SUCESSÃO DE AFONSO X (1252-1284) - DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5216/rfd%20ufg.v40i2.43188

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Adriana Vidotte ◽  
Adaílson José Rui
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alfonso X ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Legal Code ◽  
Siete Partidas ◽  
Succession Process ◽  
The One ◽  
Made In

Resumo: O processo de sucessão de Afonso X, o Sábio, rei de Leão e Castela entre os anos de 1252 e 1284, foi controversa e colocou em questão a legitimidade do poder de seus sucessores. Esse processo, que se prolongou no tempo, será analisado por meio de um estudo dos relatos contidos na Crónica del Rey Don Alfonso Décimo, escrita durante o reinado de Afonso XI (1312-1350), e das leis da Siete Partidas, código jurídico elaborado no século XIII sob a direção de Afonso X. Por meio do estudo e da confrontação das fontes analisaremos, por um lado, uma teoria sobre o poder régio e a sucessão ao trono, e por outro, uma prática que buscava manter a unidade do reino e a afirmar da legitimidade do poder dos monarcas.Abstract: The succession process of Alfonso X, the Wise, King of León and Castile between the years 1252 and 1284, was controversial and brought into question the legitimacy of his successors’ power. This process, which extended in time, will be analyzed through a study of the reports contained in the Crónica del Rey Don Alfonso the Tenth, written during the reign of Alfonso XI (1312-50), and of the laws of Siete Partidas, legal code made in the thirteenth century under the direction of Alfonso X. Through the study and confrontation of sources, on the one hand, we will analyse a theory of the royal power and the succession to the throne and, on the other, a practice that sought to maintain the unity of the kingdom and to affirm the legitimacy of the power of the monarchs.

The Foundation of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Morenos de Amapa

1970 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
North America ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Small Degree ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Legal Code ◽  
Siete Partidas ◽  
The Status

The relatively small degree of racial discrimination against the Negro in Latin America generally has been traced by North American historians to Spanish acceptance of the African Negro as a human being, not perpetually destined for slavery nor inferior to other races. In contrast to the status of the Negro slave in colonial North America, Spanish laws and attitudes are thought to have provided in colonial Spanish America a climate of opinion which promoted miscegenation and afforded the slave a variety of legal avenues to freedom. In support of this explanation of reduced racial discimination, notarial records of manumission from the colonial period and the thirteenth-century legal code, Las siete partidas , are prominently displayed as evidence of the Spaniards' belief in “equality among men” and the transformation of the principle of equality into practice.

Anthology of texts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven N. Dworkin
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
Alfonso X ◽  
Conde Lucanor ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
General Estoria

This short anthology contains extracts from three Castilian prose texts, one from the second half of the thirteenth century (General estoria IV of Alfonso X the Wise), one from the first half of the fourteenth century (El conde Lucanor of don Juan Manuel), and one from near the mid-point of the fifteenth century (Atalaya de las corónicas of Alfonso Martínez de Toledo, Arcipreste de Talavera). These passages illustrate in context many of the phonological, orthographic, morphological, syntactic, and lexical features of medieval Hispano-Romance described in the body of this book. A linguistic commentary discussing relevant forms and constructions, as well as the meaning of lexical items no longer used or employed with different meanings in modern Spanish, with cross references to the appropriate sections in the five main chapters, accompanies each selection.

scholarly journals A NORMATIZAÇÃO DO PROJETO POLÍTICO DE ALFONSO X: "las siete partidas"

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (159) ◽  
pp. 545
Author(s):  
Ana Beatriz Frazão Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Alfonso X ◽  
Siete Partidas

Alfonso X, o sábio, monarca castelhano do século XIII. patrocinou uma produção intelectual de grande envergadura em todos os campos do conhecimento. No grupo de obras políticas, destaca-se como sua produção mais importante 'Las Siete Partidas'. Influenciada pelo Direito Romano, esta obra visa constituir um código legal com amplitude superior aos antigos fueros locais. Objetivamos estudar como 'Las Siete Partidas' desvelam as aspirações políticas do Rei Sábio, ou seja, o reforço do poder real, sua autoridade como monarca, através da elaboração de uma linha teórica que vise a coesão das leis.

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