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...

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