id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt p2676t07h62 Bretton Rodriguez Narratives of Power: Royal History and the Language of Legitimacy in Medieval Castile 1904 .txt text/plain 275 6 12 In addition, I illuminate the progression of the role of royal historians from anonymous scribes to prominent literary figures, and I claim that the increased importance and sophistication of royal histories led to the professionalization of writing history in medieval Castile. Narratives of Power: Royal History and the Language of Legitimacy in Medieval Castile offers an interdisciplinary analysis – utilizing the skills of both literary criticism and historical inquiry – of the evolution of royal history and historians in medieval Castile between the reign of Alfonso X and that of the Catholic Monarchs. cache/p2676t07h62.txt txt/p2676t07h62.txt