King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family, and War

267 Pages·2019·4.243 MB·English

by  Miguel Gómez (editor), Damian Smith (editor), Kyle C. Lincoln (editor)

King Alfonso VIII
of Castile

Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
Mary C. Erler and Franklin T. Harkins, series editors

King Alfonso VIII
of Castile
Government, Family, and War
Miguel Gómez, Damian Smith,
and Kyle C. Lincoln, Editors
Fordham University Press
New York 2019
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gómez, Miguel, 1975– editor. | Smith,
Damian J., editor. | Lincoln, Kyle C., editor.
Title: King Alfonso VIII of Castile : government,
family, and war / Miguel Gómez, Damian Smith,
and Kyle C. Lincoln, editors.
Description: New York : Fordham University Press,
[2019] | Series: Fordham series in medieval studies |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifi ers: lccn 2018059020 | ISBN 9780823284146
(cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Alfonso VIII, King of Castile,
1155–1214. | Castile (Spain)—Kings and rulers—
Biography. | Spain—History—711–1516.
Classifi cation: LCC DP139 .K56 2019 |
DDC 946/.02092 [B] —dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc .gov/2018059020
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
List of Abbreviations / ix
Alfonso VIII: An Introduction / 1
Teofilo F. Ruiz
1. Ideas of Kingship in the Preambles of Alfonso VIII’s Charters / 11
Joseph F. O’Callaghan
2. Selling Castile: Coinage, Propaganda, and Mediterranean
Trade in the Age of Alfonso VIII / 30
James J. Todesca
3. Th e Infantazgo in the Reign of Alfonso VIII / 59
Janna Bianchini
4. “Happier in Daughters than in Sons”: Th e Children
of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonor Plantagenet / 80
Miriam Shadis
5. A Wall and a Shield: Alfonso VIII and the Military Orders / 102
Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J.
6. Holy War and Crusade during the Reign of Alfonso VIII / 118
Carlos de Ayala Martínez
7. Alfonso VIII and the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa / 143
Miguel Gómez
8. Alfonso VIII and the Papacy / 172
Damian Smith
9. “Si Possides Amicum, in Temptatione Posside Illum”:
Alfonso VIII and Peter the Catholic / 185
Martín Alvira Cabrer
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10. A Prosopography of the Castilian Episcopate
in the Reign of Alfonso VIII / 204
Kyle C. Lincoln
11. Via impugnandi in the Age of Alfonso VIII: Iberian-Christian
Kalām and a Latin Triad Revisited / 221
Thomas Burman
Acknowledgments / 241
List of Contributors / 243
Index / 245
Abbreviations
AC Sig Archivo de la Catedral de Sigüenza
ACT Archivo de la Catedral de Toledo
AHN Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid
AT Julio Porres Martín-Cleto, ed., Los Anales Toledanos
I–II (Toledo: Diputación Provincial de Toledo, 1993)
BC Bullarium ordinis militiae de Calatrava (Madrid:
Marin, 1759), reedited by Derek Lomax (Barcelona:
El Alvir, 1981)
BMCL Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law
BRAH Boletín de la Real Academia de Historia
BS Antonio Francisco Aguado de Córdova, Alfonso
Antonio Alemán y Rosales, and José López Agurleta,
eds., Bullarium equestris ordinis sancti Iacobi de Spatha
(Madrid, 1719)
CDCL Emilio Sáez Sánchez et al., eds., Colección Documental
del Archivo de la Catedral de León, 13 vols. (León:
Centro de Estudios e Investigación San Isidoro,
1987–1999)
CCCM Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis
(Turnhout: Brepols 1953–)
CM Lucas of Túy, Chronicon mundi, ed. Emma Falque,
CCCM 74 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003)
CMR David Th omas et al., Christian-Muslim Relations:
A Bibliographical History (Leiden/Boston: E. J. Brill,
2009–)
CVR César Hernández Alonso, ed., Crónica de Veinte Reyes
(Burgos: Ayuntamiento de Burgos, 1991)
Documentación . . . José Manuel Garrido Garrido, ed., Documentación
Burgos de la catedral de Burgos, 5 vols. (Burgos: Ediciones J.M.
Garrido Garrido, 1983–1984)
DRH Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Historia de rebus Hispanie
sive Historia Gothica, ed. Juan Fernández Valverde,
Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 72
(Turnhout: Brepols, 1987)
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