Free Download Edition, "Alfonso de Cartagena's 'Memoriale virtutum' (1422) Aristotle for Lay Princes in Medieval Spain "
English | ISBN: 9004411151 | 2022 | 460 pages | PDF | 9 MB
María Morrás and Jeremy Lawrance edit a speculum principis by Castilian thinker Alfonso de Cartagena. Based on Aristotle's Ethics, it reflected new humanist trends, heralding the transformation from medieval feudalism to Renaissance absolutism.

Free Download Alfonso X and the Cantigas de Santa Maria: A Poetic Biography By Joseph O'Callaghan
1998 | 251 Pages | ISBN: 9004110232 | PDF | 138 MB
n the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of more than four hundred poems written in the language of medieval Galicia in praise of the Virgin Mary, Alfonso X, el Sabio, king of Castile-Leon, has left us a kind of poetic biography. Declaring himself Mary's troubadour, he appeals to her as his advocate and consoler as he recounts specific events in his life and that of his kingdom. As he tells us about his family, his war against the Muslims of Granada and Morocco, the treachery of the nobility, his frequent illnesses, and his fear of hellfire and damnation, he reveals much about his personality and his spirituality. This volume explicates the historical circumstances surrounding the events described in the cantigas. The Cantigas de Santa Maria is a royal biography unique in thirteenth-century Europe.