The Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo and the Fundación Machado will develop a programme of activities centred on the figure of Alfonso X 'The Wise' to coincide with the 8th centenary of his birth.
This is a joint initiative of both institutions to examine this legacy from different perspectives (from historical to artistic, from heritage to legal and even the customs of his time that have survived to the present day), taking into account the enormous importance of the monarch.
Issues such as these will be analysed in much greater detail in a series of lectures under the scientific coordination of Antonio ZoidoPresident of the Machado Foundation.
The series will hold a monthly session until June and will resume after the summer break with three more conferences, from September to November, which will deal with such interesting subjects as the birth of Hispanic lyric poetry, the European roots and branches of Alfonso X and the genesis of popular arts.
Third conference:
Tuesday 7 June, 19.00h, `The literary legacy of the Wise King'.by Cristina Moya García, Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Seville.
The conference will analyse the valuable literary legacy of Alfonso X and reflect on the place he occupies in the history of our literature. The Wise King played a fundamental role in the European cultural history of the 13th century. Interested in all forms of knowledge, he was concerned to increase, consolidate and expand them. During his reign, he spared no effort to link his name to the prestige conferred by the arts and letters. Thanks to his efforts, Castilian became the language of culture. He occupies a pre-eminent place in the history of Spanish literature for the way he enriched and magnified it. With him we witness the birth of original Castilian prose with the composition of the Estoria de España and the General Estoria, the two historiographical enterprises sponsored by the monarch.
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About the speaker
Cristina Moya García is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Seville. She has been a visiting researcher at Queen Mary University of London; at Berkeley, University of California; and at the Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'. In 2007 she also worked at the Real Academia Española on the Diccionario Histórico project.
His research is based on four basic lines: the literary legacy of Alfonso X the Wise; late medieval Castilian historiography - with special attention to the figure of Diego de Valera; Spanish poetry with political content in the 15th and 16th centuries; and the reception of medieval themes, motifs and characters in modern and contemporary times, where his studies on the transmission of the Cidian theme stand out. Among her research on Alfonso X, it is worth mentioning the work dedicated to analysing the Enlightenment's evaluation of the work of the Wise King. Cristina Moya has also coordinated the monograph that the journal Ínsula dedicated to Alfonso X in November 2021.
She is the editor of the collective volumes Diego de Valera: between arms and letters (2014) y Juan de Mena, from lawyer to poet (2015), both published in England by the prestigious Thamesis publishing house, and the monograph Juan de Mena: time and memorypublished by Silex in 2016. Together with Professor Salvador Miguel, he edited the volume La literatura en la época de los Reyes Católicos (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2008).
About Antonio Zoido, president of the Machado Foundation and scientific coordinator of the series.
Monesterio (Badajoz, 1944). He holds a degree in Philosophy from the Gregorian University in Rome and the Complutense University in Madrid. Between 1983 and 1996 he directed the Biblioteca de la Cultura Andaluza and, subsequently, various cultural programmes related to the 1992 commemorations. From 2017 to 2020 he directed the Flamenco Biennial of Seville. Member of the Board of Trustees of the FACUA Foundation. Founding member of the Machado Foundation, he currently holds the position of President.
His publications include: Ni Oriente ni Occidente. Journey to the Centre of Andalusian Culture. 1998. La Prisión general de los Gitanos y los orígenes de lo flamenco. 1999. Twelve Theories for Seville 2000. The Sons of Plato. On saints and brotherhoods in Andalusia and Morocco 2001. El dorado zumo de la pena. Venturas y desventuras de la copla andaluza (The Golden Juice of Sorrow). 2002. The Poor of Zeus. 2003. City of a week 2004
He has been a contributor to Diario 16, El País, El Correo de Andalucía, Diario de Sevilla, Onda Cero and Cadena SER.
This activity is subsidised by the Junta de Andalucía, within the framework of the subsidy granted by the Consejería de la Presidencia, Administración Pública e Interior..
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