The Ecclesiastical Career and Religious Concerns of a Castilian Clergyman in the Fifteenth Century: Nuño Álvarez de Fuente Encalada, cantor in the Church of Cuenca

Abstract

The biography, in its historical context, of Nuño Álvarez de Fuente Encalada, cantor in the church of Cuenca during more than thirty years, a Castilian clergyman of the fifteen century barely known to the modern historiography, but very particular due to of some facets of his life and ecclesiastical career. We study the origins of his ecclesiastical career, his involvement in the Council of Basil, his academic education at the University of Bolonia, his services to the church of Cuenca, his intellectual inquisitiveness and personal library, and mainly his peculiar religiosity, activities of charity and patronage, for which he would be remembered and venerated in the church of Cuenca after his death.