Alfonso X synthesized earlier polemical threads into a coherent royal ideology

Evidence

Alfonso created a comprehensive and powerful ideology, weaving together various earlier arguments: the restoration of the Gothic monarchy in Spain; the affirmation of Roman imperial power; the reconversion of mosques into churches; the protection and succor of Christian subjects of Muslim rule; the illegitimacy of all Muslim rule, particularly in Spain; the appropriation and nationalization of the culture of the Muslim other. … It is an ideology much more unified, developed, and coherent than any found in the court of his fatherin-law, Jaume I of Aragon. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 997

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the assembly of ideological components (illegitimacy of Muslim rule, appropriation of Muslim culture) that modern settler-colonial and Islamophobic frameworks in the vault’s sources echo.