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

《埃斯托利亚西班牙史》（Estoria de Espanna）是一部13世纪的西班牙历史巨著，由卡斯蒂利亚和莱昂的阿方索十世（1252-1284年在位）指导撰写。它从西班牙的起源一直到1252年阿方索的父亲费尔南多三世去世。这是统治帝国的人民的历史，因此涉及罗马历史，哥特人的历史和711年阿拉伯入侵后半岛基督教王国的历史，阿方索认为这些王国是罗马的继承者。它有三个主要版本，其中两个是在国王在世时（1272年和1282年）编纂的，另一个是在他的儿子桑乔四世统治期间（1289年）编纂的。这三个主要版本的写作时间非常接近，揭示了对当代事件的大量焦虑，因此，对它们之间差异的考察有助于证明在当前困难中控制过去的价值。这方面的研究中世纪编年史，集中体现在加布里埃尔斯皮格尔的研究13世纪的法国编年史（浪漫的过去：在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），导致了许多富有成效的工作，在最近几年。这种比较性和对比性的上下文分析只有通过手稿版本才有可能。因此，拟议版本的一个重要功能是向学者介绍不同版本的编年史文本，从而可以对它们的组成及其在上下文中的意义进行上下文研究。埃斯托利亚·德·西班牙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，最初被认为是国王包罗万象的政治文化项目的一部分。与伊比利亚材料的常见情况一样，它在半岛之外并不为人所知，但它作为西班牙综合史的地位使其成为我们所能获得的中世纪晚期编年史写作的最佳范例之一。《埃斯托利亚》的广博学识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，该项目的目标是向更广泛的受众介绍埃斯托利亚及其所参与的巨大政治文化事业。该项目旨在提供电子版的编年史，通过搜索引擎和校对工具，将允许比较三个主要版本，并提供完整的搜索能力的任何transmits。因此，该项目将使专业和非专业的广大读者能够查阅一系列重要和基础的中世纪编年史。它将作为一个资源，为未来的语言学和历史调查，例如，介绍了三个几乎同时代的主要版本的方式，允许学者比较他们，将允许我们的政治背景下，他们的组成在13世纪的理解显着进步。电子版还将便利更多的读者查阅《埃斯托利亚》。在线研究环境将鼓励在未来添加其他手稿和抄本的图像，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.