The creation of early standard Spanish, or Castilian, and its eventual dominance in the Iberian Peninsula is arguably due to the efforts of a single individual, Alfonso X the Wise, king of Castile and León (1252-1284). How he managed to accomplish this extraordinary feat, involving large-scale translation projects from Arabic, Greek, Latin and Hebrew sources into Castilian and the reasons why he did so, will be explored in Prof. Kinkade’s lecture on the learned king’s life and works.
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