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English
Etymology
From Alfonso + -ian.
Adjective
Alfonsian (not comparable)
- Of or relating to Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284).
- Synonym: Alfonsine
2021 March, Michael A. Conrad, “When Warriors Become Teachers: Alfonso X's Cultural Endeavors and the Crusade Ideology”, in Francine Giese, editor, Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe: Cultural Negotiations and Artistic Translations in the Middle Ages and 19th-century Historicism (Visualising the Middle Ages; 13), Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 18:Much similar to Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen (r. 1220–1250), […] with whom Alfonso happened to be related (his mother was Elisabeth of Swabia), many of the written works compiled at the Alfonsian court were based on translations of Arabic sources (fig. 2.2).