Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Alfonso VIII: An Introduction 1
5. Chapter One. Ideas of Kingship in the Preambles of Alfonso VIII’s Charters 11
6. Chapter Two. Selling Castile: Coinage, Propaganda, and Mediterranean Trade in the Age of Alfonso VIII 30
7. Chapter Three. The Infantazgo in the Reign of Alfonso VIII 59
8. Chapter Four. “Happier in Daughters than in Sons”: The Children of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonor Plantagenet 80
9. Chapter Five. A Wall and a Shield: Alfonso VIII and the Military Orders 102
10. Chapter Six. Holy War and Crusade during the Reign of Alfonso VIII 118
11. Chapter Seven. Alfonso VIII and the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa 143
12. Chapter Eight. Alfonso VIII and the Papacy 172
13. Chapter Nine. “Si Possides Amicum, In Temptatione Posside Illum”: Alfonso VIII and Peter the Catholic 185
14. Chapter Ten. A Prosopography of the Castilian Episcopate in the Reign of Alfonso VII 204
15. Chapter Eleven. Via impugnandi in the Age of Alfonso VIII: Iberian-Christian Kalām and a Latin Triad Revisited 221
16. Acknowledgments 241
17. Contributors 243
18. Index 245