SPAN 450 - Medieval Spanish Studies: Worlds of Alfonso X, el Sabio: Finding books

Presents an illuminating biography of Alfonso X, the thirteenth-century philosopher-king whose affinity for Spain’s Islamic culture left an indelible mark on Western civilization.

E-book. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet. (Source: ProQuest - Academic Complete)

Spencer Research Library at KU (Special Collections)
Full color facsimile of the Escorial MS (written before 1284) with title and colophon printed on endpapers. No. 496 of 2200 copies, signed and sealed by the Consejero Delegado Gerente of the Patrimonio Nacional.

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"A examination of Alfonso X, who created a Libro de las leyes, the Siete Partidas, a code of law that has had an enduring impact on the development of law and institutions over the centuries not only in the Iberian Peninsula but also throughout the Spanish-speaking world"--

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Click on title above, then Connect to electronic text. - (Source: De Gruyter online), then Contents. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet. Available through De Gruyter online.
"This book is an investigation into the methods, decisions, and theoretical perspectives that underpin the creation and writing of an all-encompassing legal code, the Siete Partidas (Seven Parts), although it is not an exhaustive study of that code. . . Ultimately, this book is a study of the question of what it meant to codify law in the Middle Ages and what problems this question gave birth to, along with the technical strategies that lawgivers and law scholars offered to resolve those issues"--

Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet. Available through ProQuest - Academic Complete.
Also available at Watson library in print.

Licensed for all KU students, faculty and staff connecting to the Internet.