Background
Round, Nicholas Grenville was born on June 6, 1938 in Looe, Cornwall, England. Son of Isaac Eric and Laura Christabel (Poole) Round.
(Alvaro de Luna was for almost forty years Juan II of Cast...)
Alvaro de Luna was for almost forty years Juan II of Castile's closest friend, and for the greater part of that time his chief minister. Working ceaselessly to consolidate Juan's position, achieved through his great-grandfather's murder of his half-brother king Pedro, he had initially to establish a power base and, in the years preceding his eventual downfall, to maintain it against the constant restlessness of the Spanish nobility. Only in the middle years can he be seen to have given Spain a fiscal regime, an enterprising recruitment policy for the public services, and a coherent ideology. This study of the violent and enigmatic circumstances in which his career came to an end makes a valuable contribution to understanding 15th-century Castilian history.
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Round, Nicholas Grenville was born on June 6, 1938 in Looe, Cornwall, England. Son of Isaac Eric and Laura Christabel (Poole) Round.
Bachelor in Spanish and French with honors, University of Oxford, 1959; Master of Arts, University of Oxford, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, 1967.
Lecturer in Spanish, Queen's U., Belfast, 1962-1971; reader in Spanish, Queen's U., Belfast, 1971-1972; Stevenson professor Hispanic studies, U. Glasgow, Scotland, since 1972.
(Alvaro de Luna was for almost forty years Juan II of Cast...)
Member regional executive council Labour party, Strathclyde, since 1986. Member Institute Translation and Interpreting, Association Hispanists Great Britain and Ireland (national committee 1970-1973), Modern Humanities Research Association, Modern Language Association, Society Study Medieval Languages and Literature, International Association Hispanists.
Married Ann Le Vin, March 29, 1966. 1 child, Grainne Annual.