Chronicle of Chronicle of King Pedro Volumes 1 - 3: Pero López de Ayala (Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics) - Image 1

Price loading...

Liverpool University Press Chronicle of Chronicle of King Pedro Volumes 1 - 3: Pero López de Ayala (Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics)

Name: Chronicle of Chronicle of King Pedro Volumes 1 - 3: Pero Lopez de Ayala (Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics)
Brand: Liverpool University Press

Poetry, Drama & Criticism

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Pero Lopez de Ayala's Chronicle of King Pedro provides a compelling and richly informative account of the turbulent reign of the notorious but enigmatic fourteenth-century Castilian monarch who came to be known as Pedro el Cruel. It is a vitally important source for our understanding of the history of the Iberian Peninsula during this critical period in its development and of the complex social and political divisions by which the Spanish kingdoms were torn. This three-volume Chronicle gives us a gripping and wide-ranging picture of a period characterized by harsh brutality, conflict and betrayal but at the same time by the ideals of chivalry, memorably personified in figures such as the Black Prince and Bertrand du Guesclin. At its centre is the chilling portrait of King Pedro, a brilliantly constructed image of self-destructive evil. The translation is accompanied by a Spanish text taken from German Orduna's groundbreaking edition and by detailed notes. The introduction explores the background to the Chronicle's composition and sets Lopez de Ayala's account against a broad canvas of events in the Spanish kingdoms and beyond. It examines how the chronicler's subtle artistry was used to create a picture of a deeply flawed monarch which has continued to exercise a profound fascination over the centuries.

Product Specifications

Brand: Liverpool University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1789621348
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 May 2020
Listed Since: 16 September 2019

Barcode

No barcode data available

Liverpool University Press Chronicle of Chronicle of King Pedro Volumes 1 - 3: Pero López de Ayala (Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics)

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Triumph of an Accursed Lineage: Kingship in Castile from Alfonso X to Alfonso XI (1252-1350) (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)

At the Edge of Reformation: Iberia before the Black Death

A King Travels – Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain

The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel 1290 - 1360

Fourteenth Century England XII: 12

English Chronicle 1377-1461: A New Edition: Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS 21608, and Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Lyell 34 (Medieval Chronicles)

Diplomatarium of the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia – The Registered Charters of its Conqueror, Jaume I, 1257–1276 III – Transition in Crusader ... Years of Triumph, Years of War, 1264-1270: 03

The Book of Deeds of James I of Aragon: A Translation of the Medieval Catalan Llibre dels Fets (Crusade Texts in Translation)

Friendship in Medieval Iberia: Historical, Legal and Literary Perspectives

The Book of Deeds of James I of Aragon: A Translation of the Medieval Catalan Llibre dels Fets: 10 (Crusade Texts in Translation)

The Conquest of Santarém and Goswin’s Song of the Conquest of Alcácer do Sal: Editions and Translations of De expugnatione Scalabis and Gosuini de ... carmen (Crusade Texts in Translation)

War, Diplomacy and Peacemaking in Medieval Iberia

Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile: Breaking with the Past (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)

Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain: The Building of the Nation-State, 1780–1931 (Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain)

King John (Mis)Remembered: The Dunmow Chronicle, the Lord's Admiral's Men, and the Formation of Cultural Memory

Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: Biblical Rhetoric in the Reconquest Chronicles of León-Castile

Lord of the Pyrenees: Gaston Febus, Count of Foix (1331-1391)

The Plantagenet Empire 1154-1224

Constructing Kingship: The Capetian Monarchs of France and the Early Crusades: 9 (Manchester Medieval Studies)

Philippe II

The Iberian World: 1450–1820 (Routledge Worlds)

The Plantagenet Empire 1154-1224

The Crusades (Critical Concepts in Historical Studies)

Prester John: The Legend and its Sources (Crusade Texts in Translation)