Spain's King Alfons X "The Wise" and His Contributions to Manuscripts
- Spain contributed to the development of legal systems and universities in medieval Europe.
- Spain was an unusual European region because it was populated by Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
One primary source we should consider is Las Siete Partidas (The Seven Parts), a legal code written and enacted under Spanish Castilian King Alfonso X (ruled 1252-1284) who was known as “The Wise” and the “King of Three Faiths” due to the intellectual projects produced by the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish scholars in his administration. King Alfonso X ruled at a time when independent Christian kingdoms in the north and similarly independent Muslim kingdoms in the south peppered the Iberian Peninsula (present-day Spain).
King Alfonso X supported the creation of the Cantigas de Santa Maria or “Canticles of Holy Mary,” a collection of 420 narratives, devotional, and liturgical poems. The “compositions were written in medieval Galician-Portuguese under Alfonso’s direction from 1252 to 1284.
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