Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Illustrations VII
4. Abbreviations IX
5. Preface XI
6. 1. Stupor Mundi: Alfonso X of Castile, the Learned 1
7. 2. Image and Reality: The King Creates His Kingdom 14
8. 3. Alfonso el Sabio and the Thirteenth-Century Spanish Language 33
9. 4. Manuscript Illustration: The Cantigas in Contemporary Art Context 46
10. 5. Jewish Collaborators in Alfonso's Scientific Work 59
11. 6. Drama, Ritual, and Incipient Opera in Alfonso's Cantigas 72
12. 7. Alfonso's Scriptorium and Chancery: Role of the Prologue in Bonding the Translatio Studii to the Translatio Potestatis 90
13. 8. The Road Through Roncesvalles: Alfonsine Formation of Brunetto Latini and Dante—Diplomacy and Literature 109
14. 9. Alfonso as Troubadour: The Fact and the Fiction 124
15. 10. Alfonsine Historiography: The Literary Narrative 141
16. 11. Melodic Survivals? Kurt Schindler and the Tune of Alfonso's Cantiga "Rosa das rosas" in Oral Tradition 159
17. 12. The Legislative Works of Alfonso el Sabio 182
18. 13. In Search of a King: An Alfonsine Bibliology 198
19. Contributors 209
20. Notes 215
21. Index 261
22. Backmatter 273