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.
Second conference:
Thursday 7 April, 19.00 h. European roots and branches of Alfonso X. The Empire's demise'., by Laureano Fernández-Távora Fernández, a populariser of the history of the late Middle Ages.
The lecture will bring us closer to the network of Alfonso X's relationships with the majority of the European Courts and to the people who managed the marriage policies that made this king one of the noblest lineages of his time. The Fecho del Imperio will also be analysed from the international context of the time: the conflict between Guelphs and Ghibellines, the rebellion of the Castilian nobility and the failure of the meeting with Pope Gregory X.
About Laureano Fernández-Távora
Laureano Fernández-Távora Fernández (Seville 1952) is a retired specialist in allergology. Trained at the Virgen Macarena Hospital in Seville, he developed his professional activity at the Juan Ramón Jiménez Hospital in Huelva and the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville. Author of numerous publications indexed in Immunology and Allergy journals and chapters in books in his speciality. Speaker at congresses and symposiums of the Spanish Society of Allergology, of which he was a member of the Board of Directors for 8 years.
Interested in History and the Humanities, he is a regular attendee at the sessions of the Al Andalus Chair of the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation. Due to his special predilection for the history of the late Middle Ages in Europe, he was invited in 2013 by Professor Emilio González Ferrín, Scientific Director of the Chair, to participate in the book Encrucijada de Culturas Alfonso X y su tiempo, a tribute to the historian Francisco Marquez Villanueva. In his article "Los hijos olvidados de Fernando III El Santo" he describes aspects of the biographies of the brothers of Alfonso X, Fadrique, Felipe and Enrique that are little known to non-historians.
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..
