The Imperium in Alfonso X’s Historiography
The concept of imperium (i.e. ‘pre-eminent power of divine origin over different peoples and lands’) is pervasive in the historiography of Alfonso X the Learned, king of Castile and Leon (1252–1284) and pretender to the Holy Roman Empire (1257–1275). As proven, the imperium structures the chronology...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/720651 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/720651 https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004428560_002 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Alfonso X historiography imperium Filología |
| Sumario: | The concept of imperium (i.e. ‘pre-eminent power of divine origin over different peoples and lands’) is pervasive in the historiography of Alfonso X the Learned, king of Castile and Leon (1252–1284) and pretender to the Holy Roman Empire (1257–1275). As proven, the imperium structures the chronology and provides the main content and ideology of both his Estoria de España (‘History of Spain’) and General estoria (‘General history’) (both written in 1270–1284). But of the two possible imperia Alfonso aspired to, that is, over the Iberian peninsula or over Europe, there are arguments sustaining that imperium Hispaniae was truly his main concern, e.g. the major iconographic project devised for the history of Spain (and not for world history), the language chosen (Castilian instead of Latin), and the pre-eminence given to the king over the emperor |
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