On Thursday 22nd December, at 19:30, in our Al-Andalus Chair session, we will have Marina Kleine, graduate in German Philology and PhD from the University of Seville, and her conference 'Cultural and administrative production at the court of Alfonso X'.
It is well known that King Alfonso X, known as 'the Wise', surrounded himself with a large number of men of letters and other intellectuals in his court: jurists, clerics, translators, musicians, poets... A large team organised not only to carry out one of the most important cultural works of the Iberian Middle Ages, but also to carry out the administrative tasks of the kingdom, which undeniably involved writing. This paper will give an overview of who Alfonso X's collaborators were and how textual/documentary production was organised at his court.
To attend the conference it is necessary to register in advance at this link.
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 BA in German Philology and MA in History at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Her research interests focus mainly on the kingdom of Castile from 1250 to 1350, ranging from political thought and institutional history to the literature produced at 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, read in December 2012, which consists of a prosopographical approach to the staff of the Castilian royal chancellery during the reign of Alfonso X. She is currently active as an independent researcher and is expanding her research on the royal chancellery with documentation from the reign of Sancho IV.
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