The De Rebus Hispanie and the Mature Latin Chronicle in the Iberian Middle Ages
Bernard F. Reilly
The De Rebus Hispaniae is one of three Latin chronicles produced at the court Fernando III Leόn-Castile (1218–1252), and its near contemporary translation into Spanish period made it most influential them on subsequent development historical writing in Iberia. Its author was then archbishop Toledo, Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada (1210–1247), an intimate actor eyewitness many major events He himself raised Kingdom Navarre educated universities Bologna Italy Paris France. That background enabled him to realize that history Iberia could not any longer be reduced simply Leόn-Castile. Writing from semiretirement after 1238 he reworked traditional world chronicle produce first true
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