The Fuero Real of Alfonso X: A New Evaluation of Its Manuscript Tradition

The Instituto Cervantes in Manchester collaborates with Durham University and Northumbria University in the IV Durham Northumbria Colloquium on Medieval and Golden Age Hispanic Studies with the lecture "The Fuero real of Alfonso X: A New Evaluation of its Manuscript Tradition" given by Inés Fernández Ordóñez, Professor of Spanish Language at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

The Fuero real (1255) is the first of Alfonso X the Wise's legislative works and had a notable medieval manuscript dissemination. The lecture will focus on presenting recently discovered or re-evaluated testimonies in their dating as contemporaries of the Wise King, and what they reveal about the transmission of the Fuero in particular and legal texts in general, paying attention to the type of textual and linguistic variants.

Inés Fernández Ordóñez is a Professor of Spanish Language at the Autonomous University of Madrid and a member of the Royal Spanish Academy and the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain. She specializes in dialectology, both current and historical, of Spanish and is particularly interested in grammatical variation. Within this latter facet, she directs the Corpus Oral y Sonoro del Español Rural, which she developed between 1990 and 2023 with the collaboration of successive generations of students and colleagues. Additionally, she participates in the digital edition of the Atlas lingüístico de la Península Ibérica. Her research also focuses on the critical edition of medieval texts and the study of historical and chronicle texts of the Peninsular Middle Ages, especially those produced under the patronage of Alfonso X the Wise. To these two lines of work, the study of the figure, ideas, and school of Ramón Menéndez Pidal can be added. Within this line, she has directed the digital edition of his linguistic file.