CHAPTER 2: National-imperial propaganda of the Castilian/Hispanic Reconquest: 2.2 Fecho d'Espanna, fecho d'Imperio: Cultural politics and poetics.

Section 2 of chapter 2 of the book "Imperial Histories From Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso: Revisionist Myths of Reconquest and Conquest" is presented. According to the article, the concept of Hispania by Alfonso X of Castile must first of all correspond to a model of divine providence in time and of C...

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Published in:Imperial Histories from Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso: Revisionist Myths of Reconquest & Conquest pp. 12 - 19
Main Author: González-Casanovas, Roberto J.
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Digitalia Publishing Corp. 1997
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Summary:Section 2 of chapter 2 of the book "Imperial Histories From Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso: Revisionist Myths of Reconquest and Conquest" is presented. According to the article, the concept of Hispania by Alfonso X of Castile must first of all correspond to a model of divine providence in time and of Christian commonwealth in space, in that it is integrated in the central text of the Alfonsine history of Spain. It also reviews the definition of kingdom, king and lord found in Alfonso's Siete partidas.