On Thursday, December 22, at 7:30 p.m., at our Al-Andalus Chair session, we will have Marina Kleine, a graduate in German Philology and a PhD from the University of Seville, and her lecture ‘Cultural and administrative production in the court of Alfonso X’.
It is well known that the Wise King surrounded himself with a great number of men of letters and other intellectuals in his court: jurists, clergymen, translators, musicians, poets… A great team organized not only to produce one of the most important Cultural works of the Iberian Medieval, but also to carry out the administrative tasks of the kingdom, which undeniably went through the writing. This paper will give an overview of who Alfonso X’s collaborators were and how the production of texts and documents was organized at his court.
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Lecturer:
Marina Kleine is a member of the research group “The Kingdom of Seville in the Late Middle Ages” of the Department of Medieval History and Historiographic Sciences and Techniques of the University of Seville. She holds a PhD from the same department and completed her degree in German Philology and the Masters in History at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Her research interests focus mainly on the kingdom of Castile from 1250 to 1350, and range from political thought and institutional history to the literature produced in the royal court, with a special focus on prosopography as a method of historical research. She has published several articles and book chapters in Portuguese and Spanish, as well as a book derived from her doctoral thesis, defended in December 2012, which consists of a prosopographic approach to the staff of the Castilian royal chancery during the reign of Alfonso X. She is currently still active as an independent researcher and is expanding her research on the royal chancery with documentation from the reign of Sancho IV.
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