Alfonso X, the Cortes, and Government in Medieval Spain

Download or read book Alfonso X, the Cortes, and Government in Medieval Spain written by Joseph F. O'Callaghan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies included in this volume, written over a period of nearly thirty years, deal principally with two major themes, namely, the reign of Alfonso X, el Sabio (1252-84), one of the great kings of medieval Spain, and the development of the cortes of Castile-León, a characteristc example of the emergence of European representative parliamentary institutions. An introductory study describes the integration of medieval Spain into western Europe in the late eleventh century.