Chronicle of Alfonso X

It is good to have O'Callaghan's valuable introductory essay as well as a readable English text, from which scholars can learn much about Alfonso X, his family, and his people.

~Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

The chronicle is of unequal quality and value.... Thacker and Escobar have done a decent job, conveying the often turgid and clumsy prose of the original Castilian into clear idiomatic English.

~History

Thacker and Escobar have opened the door for the English-reading audience to appreciate the dynamic personal and historical background of the life of Alfonso X, who changed the intellectual, social, and political landscape of thirteenth-century Spain and justly earned the sobriquet Stupor mundi.

~Speculum

I do not believe that there will ever be another translation or the need for one. The extreme difficulty of the original Spanish will preclude other attempts.

~John E. Keller

Literate and agile. The book is an important contribution, not only because the original looms large in medieval Hispanic scholarship but because fairly good Hispanists can use the help of a translation with this clumsy Castilian.

~Robert I. Burns