An electronic research environment and edition of the Estoria de Espanna of Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon

《西班牙史》是一部在卡斯蒂利亚和莱昂的阿方索十世（1252-1284年在位）的指导下撰写的十三世纪西班牙历史。它从西班牙的起源一直延续到1252年阿方索的父亲费尔南多三世去世。这是统治帝国的人的历史，因此涉及罗马历史，哥特人的历史以及711年阿拉伯人入侵后半岛基督教王国的历史，阿方索认为阿拉伯人是罗马的继承者。它有三个主要版本，两个是在国王生前（1272年和1282年）编纂的，另一个是在他的儿子桑乔四世统治时期，1289年。这三个主要版本彼此紧密相连，揭示了对当代事件的大量焦虑，因此对它们之间差异的研究有助于证明在当前困难中控制过去的价值。这方面对中世纪编年史的研究，以加布里埃尔·斯皮格尔对13世纪法国编年史的研究为代表（《罗曼蒂克的过去：13世纪法国白话散文史学的兴起》，伯克利：加州大学出版社，1995年），近年来产生了许多卓有成效的工作。这种比较和构造上下文分析只有通过访问手稿版本才有可能。因此，拟议版本的一个重要功能是向学者展示编年史的不同版本的文本，从而允许对它们的组成及其在上下文中的后续意义进行上下文研究。《西班牙故事》（Estoria de Espanna）是中世纪卡斯蒂利亚史学传统的核心，是西班牙第一部也是最伟大的中世纪浪漫史，最初被认为是国王无所不包的政治文化项目的一部分。就像伊比利亚半岛的材料一样，它在半岛以外并不为人所知，但它作为西班牙全面历史的地位使它成为我们所能获得的中世纪晚期编年史的最好例子之一。《Estoria》的知识广度和复杂的叙事结构使其成为研究中世纪叙事史的主要材料因此，这个项目的目的是将《Estoria》和它所构成的庞大的政治文化企业带给更广泛的受众。这个计划的目的是提供一个编年史的电子版本，通过搜索引擎和整理工具，可以比较三个主要版本，并提供对任何转录的全面搜索能力。因此，该项目将允许访问一个重要的和基础的中世纪编年史系列广泛的读者，专家和非专业人士。它将作为未来语言学和历史研究的资源，例如，以一种允许学者比较它们的方式呈现三个几乎同时期的主要版本，将使我们对13世纪它们组成的政治背景的理解取得重大进展。电子版也将使更广泛的读者能够访问《故事》。在线研究环境将鼓励在未来增加其他手稿的转录和抄本的图像，这将保证项目的持续可行性。

The Estoria de Espanna is an extensive thirteenth-century history of Spain composed under the direction of Alfonso X of Castile and Leon (reigned 1252-1284). It runs from the origins of Spain to the death of Alfonso's father Fernando III in 1252. It is the history of the people who ruled the empire and therefore deals with Roman history, the history of the Goths and the history of the Christian kingdoms of the Peninsula after the Arab invasion of 711 which Alfonso regarded as the inheritors of Rome. It exists in three major versions, two compiled during the lifetime of the king (1272 and 1282) and another during the reign of his son Sancho IV, in 1289. The three major versions written in close succession to each other reveal a host of anxieties about contemporary events and so an examination of the differences between them can help to demonstrate the value of control of the past in present difficulty. This aspect research on medieval chronicles, epitomised by Gabrielle Spiegel's study of thirteenth-century French chronicles (Romancing the Past: the rise of vernacular prose historiography in thirteenth-century France, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), has led to much fruitful work in recent years. Such comparative and constrative contextual analysis is only possible through access to manuscript versions. One important function of the proposed edition is therefore to present to scholars the text of the different versions of the chronicle, thereby allowing a contextual study of their composition and their consequent meaning in context. The Estoria de Espanna is the centerpiece of the medieval Castilian historiographical tradition, the first and greatest medieval history of Spain written in romance, and was originally conceived as part of an all-encompassing politico-cultural project by the king. As is frequently the case with Iberian material, it is not well known outside the peninsula, and yet its status as comprehensive history of Spain makes it one of the finest examples of late medieval chronicle writing available to us. The breadth of learning and sophisticated narrative construction of the Estoria make it prime material for the study of medieval narrative history generally and the project therefore has the aim of bringing both the Estoria and the enormous politico-cultural enterprise of which it formed a part to a wider audience.The project aims to provide an electronic edition of the chronicle which, by means of a search engine and collation tool, will allow comparison of the three major versions and provide full searching ability for any of the transcriptions. The project will therefore permit access to an important and foundational series of medieval chronicles to a wide readership, both specialist and non-specialist. It will serve as a resource for future philological and historical enquiry, for example, the presentation of three almost contemporaneous major versions in a manner which permits the scholar to compare them, will allow significant advances in our understanding of the political context of their composition in the thirteenth century. The electronic edition will also facilitate access to the Estoria to a wider audience. The online research environment will encourage the addition of transcriptions of other manuscripts and also images of the codices in the future, which will guarantee the on-going viability of the project.