The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance by Simon R. Doubleday

The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance

Simon R. Doubleday

336 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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An illuminating biography of Alfonso X, the 13th-century philosopher-king whose affinity for Islamic culture left an indelible mark on Western civilization "If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king A...

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