scholarly journals The Alfonso X’s patronage of Gothic architecture

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 197-224
Author(s):  
Tom Nickson
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Alfonso X ◽  
Gothic Architecture ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Architectural Patronage ◽  
Financial Contributions

This article examines the architectural patronage of King Alfonso X and the notion of a ‘Court Style’ in thirteenth-century Gothic architecture. Following brief consideration of problems of evidence, I briefly sketch common characteristics of the architectural patronage of Alfonso’s royal rivals and allies across Europe and the Iberian Peninsula. This prompts reassessment of the king’s relationships with mendicant and Cistercian orders, and then detailed consideration of his financial contributions to the cathedrals of Toledo, Burgos and León. Although royal heraldry and imagery is prominent in all three cathedrals, I argue that Alfonso probably did not play a significant role in promoting rayonnant architecture in his kingdom. The most distinctive feature of his patronage lies in his support for work on the converted mosque-cathedrals of Seville and especially Córdoba. Finally, I consider a number of projects associated with Alfonso in Seville, notably the Gothic palace in the Alcázar.

scholarly journals El contrato de "locatio conductio" : notas sobre su recepción en el derecho castellano medieval : con especial referencia al código de "las Partidas"

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Antonio Martínez Vela
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Alfonso X ◽  
Medieval Spain ◽  
The Third ◽  
Legal Code ◽  
Spanish Law ◽  
Península Ibérica

El Derecho Español en la época altomedieval se encuentra muy condicionado por el proceso de la Reconquista, el cual supuso la existencia en la Península Ibérica de diversos sistemas jurídicos: la pervivencia en ciertos territorios del Derecho visigótico a través del Liber Iudiciorum, el régimen de Fazañas y el régimen de Fueros locales. Se debe a Alfonso X el Sabio, a mediados del siglo XIII, el primer intento de realizar un auténtico Código jurídico que tuviera una aplicación general a todo el territorio: las Partidas, si bien previamente ya había elaborado otras obras jurídicas como el Espéculo y el Fuero Real. Nuestro trabajo se centra en analizar cuál fue la recepción que en este marasmo jurídico de la España Medieval tuvo el contrato romano de locatio-conductio, el cual sólo comienza a aparecer contemplado de modo expreso a partir del citado Fuero Real (Título XVI de su Libro III), si bien es en las Partidas (título VIII de la Partida V) donde alcanza su mayor desarrollo.The High Medieval Spanish Law is really influenced by the process of Reconquest of the territory, which also involved that very different legal systems coexist in the Iberian Peninsula: the visigothic Law throgh the Liber Iudiciorum, the Fazañas or customary practice law, and the system of municipal Fueros. It was Alfonso X, the Wise, who made –towards mid-Thirteenth Century– the first real try to create a new and systematic Legal Code applicable to any territory under his rule, to the whole Kingdom: the Partidas, although previously he had just made other two legal codes: the Especulo and the Fuero Real. The focus of our paper is trying to analyze how it was the reception that the roman contract of locatio conductio had in this legal mess existing in Medieval Spain, which is just specifically referred in the Fuero Real (Title XVI of the Third Book), although it is in the Partidas Code (Title VIII of the Partida V) where it had its fullest development.

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.

Haiku

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Veenstra
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
Ezra Pound ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Asian Culture ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Amy Lowell ◽  
Beat Poets

A brief form of poetry originally developed in Japan around the thirteenth century, haiku are typically composed of three lines with a total of seventeen onji, or syllable-like units. Traditional haiku depicts the natural world, is written in the present tense, and includes minimal subjective commentary from the poet, often reflecting Buddhist principles of interrelatedness and egolessness. Much like other forms of Asian culture, haiku played a significant role in the development of early modernism, notably the poetic movement Imagism developed primarily by Ezra Pound, H.D., and Amy Lowell. Haiku has maintained a strong presence globally and in Western literature throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, seeing a particularly strong resurgence in the 1950s and 1960s, when the poetic form and the related ideas of Zen Buddhism were embraced and disseminated by the Beat poets.

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.

Ways and Means of Science in Medieval Spain

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-157
Author(s):  
Francisco Márquez-Villanueva
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
The West ◽  
Alfonso X ◽  
Medieval Spain ◽  
Cultural Empowerment ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Spanish Soil

The concept of tolerance initially advanced by the Arabs in both the East and the Iberian peninsula, an ideal later continued at the time of the Reconquest by Spanish Christians, was the key to the transmission of Greek science to the West. This paper examines the far-reaching and peculiar ways in which both Christians and Muslims fostered on Spanish soil a thriving intellectual life in the low Middle Ages. Particular attention is given to the rich personality and precociously modern achievements of King Alfonso X, with his vast project of cultural empowerment on behalf of his subjects.

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