King Alfonso VIII of Castile : : Government, Family, and War / / ed. by Kyle C. Lincoln, Damian J. Smith, Miguel Gómez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Alvira Cabrer, Martín,; Bianchini, Janna,; Burman, Thomas,; Conedera, Sam Zeno,; Gómez, Miguel,; Lincoln, Kyle C.,; O'Callaghan, Joseph F.,; Ruiz, Teofilo F.,; Shadis, Miriam,; Smith, Damian,; Todesca, James J.,; de Ayala Martínez, Carlos,
• TeilnehmendeR: Alvira Cabrer, Martín.; Bianchini, Janna.; Burman, Thomas E.; Conedera, Sam Zeno.; Gómez, Miguel.; Lincoln, Kyle C.; O'Callaghan, Joseph F.; Ruiz, Teofilo.; Shadis, Miriam.; Smith, Damian J.; Todesca, James J.; de Ayala Martinez, Carlos.
• HerausgeberIn: Gómez, Miguel,; Lincoln, Kyle C.,; Smith, Damian J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 9

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Alfonso VIII: An Introduction -- Chapter One. Ideas of Kingship in the Preambles of Alfonso VIII's Charters -- Chapter Two. Selling Castile: Coinage, Propaganda, and Mediterranean Trade in the Age of Alfonso VIII -- Chapter Three. The Infantazgo in the Reign of Alfonso VIII -- Chapter Four. "Happier in Daughters than in Sons": The Children of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonor Plantagenet -- Chapter Five. A Wall and a Shield: Alfonso VIII and the Military Orders -- Chapter Six. Holy War and Crusade during the Reign of Alfonso VIII -- Chapter Seven. Alfonso VIII and the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa -- Chapter Eight. Alfonso VIII and the Papacy -- Chapter Nine. "Si Possides Amicum, In Temptatione Posside Illum": Alfonso VIII and Peter the Catholic -- Chapter Ten. A Prosopography of the Castilian Episcopate in the Reign of Alfonso VII -- Chapter Eleven. Via impugnandi in the Age of Alfonso VIII: Iberian-Christian Kalām and a Latin Triad Revisited -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index