The Rule of Law and the Written Word in Alfonsine Castile: Demystifying a Consecrated Vernacular
David Rojinsky
This study examines the correspondences between reconquest, repopulation and acceptance of Castilian as an official written language. While recent research has focused on how monarchy sought to invent a sacred script comparable Latin, Arabic Hebrew, or simply prestigious language culture, my reading Siete Partidas is more concerned with vernacular writing regulatory practice writings administrative tools sanctioned by Crown facilitate socio-juridical control repopulated spaces peoples. Ultimately, practical demands territorial conquest were critical Spanish than any purely cultural concerns may have had.En este estudio se examinan las coincidencias entre reconquista, repoblacion y la inauguracion del castellano como lengua escrita oficial. Mientras en el pasado ha subrayado papel de monarquia castellana 'invencion' prosa co...
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies