King Alfonso VIII of Castile
Government, Family, and War
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King Alfonso VIII of Castile
Government, Family, and War
About this book
King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family and War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign of Alfonso VIII (1158–1215). This was a critical period in the history of the Iberian peninsula, when the conflict between the Christian north and the Moroccan empire of the Almohads was at its most intense, while the political divisions between the five Christian kingdoms reached their high-water mark. From his troubled ascension as a child to his victory at Las Navas de Tolosa near the end of his fifty-seven-year reign, Alfonso VIII and his kingdom were at the epicenter of many of the most dramatic events of the era.
Contributors: Martin Alvira Cabrer, Janna Bianchini, Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J., Miguel Dolan Gómez, Carlos de Ayala Martínez, Kyle C. Lincoln, Joseph O'Callaghan, Teofi lo F. Ruiz, Miriam Shadis, Damian J. Smith, James J. Todesca
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Alfonso VIII: An Introduction
- 1. Ideas of Kingship in the Preambles of Alfonso VIII’s Charters
- 2. Selling Castile: Coinage, Propaganda, and Mediterranean Trade in the Age of Alfonso VIII
- 3. The Infantazgo in the Reign of Alfonso VIII
- 4. “Happier in Daughters than in Sons”: The Children of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonor Plantagenet
- 5. A Wall and a Shield: Alfonso VIII and the Military Orders
- 6. Holy War and Crusade during the Reign of Alfonso VIII
- 7. Alfonso VIII and the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
- 8. Alfonso VIII and the Papacy
- 9. “Si Possides Amicum, in Temptatione Posside Illum”: Alfonso VIII and Peter the Catholic
- 10. A Prosopography of the Castilian Episcopate in the Reign of Alfonso VIII
- 11. Via impugnandi in the Age of Alfonso VIII: Iberian-Christian Kalām and a Latin Triad Revisited
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Series List