King Alfonso VIII of Castile

Miguel Gómez (Edited By) Miguel Gómez is Lecturer in History at the University of Dayton, and is finishing a manuscript on the crusade of Las Navas de Tolosa. His articles have appeared in the Anuario de la Historia de la Iglesia, and in 2012 he edited a special volume of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies about the campaign of Las Navas de Tolosa. Kyle C. Lincoln (Edited By) Kyle C. Lincoln is Visiting Assistant Professor at Kalamazoo College. His articles have appeared in the Anuario de la Historia de la Iglesia and the Revista Chilena de Estudios Medeivales. His doctoral thesis investigated the Church in the Kingdom of Castile during the reign of Alfonso VIII of Castile. Damian J. Smith (Edited By) Damian J. Smith is Professor of History at Saint Louis University. His works include Innocent III and the Crown of Aragon (Aldershot, 2004), Crusade, Heresy, and Inquisition in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon (Leiden, 2010), and the English-language translation, with Helena Buff ery, of the Llibre dels Feits of James I of Aragon (Aldershot, 2003).

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Alfonso VIII: An Introduction

Teofilo F. Ruiz

1. Ideas of Kingship in the Preambles of Alfonso VIII’s Charters

Joseph F. O’Callaghan

2. Selling Castile: Coinage, Propaganda, and Mediterranean Trade in the Age of Alfonso VIII

James J. Todesca

3. The Infantazgo in the Reign of Alfonso VIII

Janna Bianchini

4. “Happier in Daughters than in Sons”: Th e Children of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonor Plantagenet

Miriam Shadis

5. A Wall and a Shield: Alfonso VIII and the Military Orders

Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J.

6. Holy War and Crusade during the Reign of Alfonso VIII

Carlos de Ayala Martínez

7. Alfonso VIII and the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

Miguel Gómez

8. Alfonso VIII and the Papacy

Damian Smith

9. “Si Possides Amicum, in Temptatione Posside”: Alfonso VIII and Peter the Catholic

Martín Alvira Cabrer

10. A Prosopography of the Castilian Episcopate in the Reign of Alfonso VIII

Kyle C. Lincoln

11. Via impugnandi in the Age of Alfonso VIII: Iberian-Christian Kalām and a Latin Triad Revisited

Thomas Burman

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Index