IMC 2005: Sessions

Session 503: Alfonso X Studies

Sponsor:	Oxford Cantigas de Santa María Database Project
Organiser:	Stephen R. Parkinson, Centre for the Study of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:	Stephen R. Parkinson, Centre for the Study of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, University of Oxford
Paper 503-a	Putting the Cantigas in Context: Tracing the Sources of Alfonso X's Marian Miracles (Language: English) Stephen R. Parkinson, Centre for the Study of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, University of Oxford Deirdre Elizabeth Jackson, University of Oxford Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Spanish and Portuguese
Paper 503-b	The Cantigas as Evidence for Instrumental and Harmonic Practice (Language: English) David Wulstan, Aberystwyth University Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish and Portuguese, Music
Paper 503-c	Laying out the Law: The Significance of Circles and Rubrics in Alfonso X's Chronicles (Language: English) Kirstin Kennedy, Victoria & Albert Museum, London Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Spanish and Portuguese, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	Studies on different facets of the works written and commissioned by Alfonso X, 'the Learned', of Castile - the texts and music of his Cantigas de Santa Maria (poems in praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary), and his chronicles and historical works.