Medievalists.net » Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Thieves of Pleasure: A vicious fraternal war rewards Alfonso VI with the artistic and poetic treasures of al-Andalus http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/19/thieves-of-pleasure-a-vicious-fraternal-war-rewards-alfonso-vi-with-the-artistic-and-poetic-treasures-of-al-andalus/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/19/thieves-of-pleasure-a-vicious-fraternal-war-rewards-alfonso-vi-with-the-artistic-and-poetic-treasures-of-al-andalus/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:45:23 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39346 As the balance of power began to shift from Muslim to Christian, a power struggle erupted among Christian rulers that would continue for generations, even as the light of Arabic poetry burned bright enough to influences centuries of Western verse.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/19/thieves-of-pleasure-a-vicious-fraternal-war-rewards-alfonso-vi-with-the-artistic-and-poetic-treasures-of-al-andalus/feed/ 0 The Cluniac Priories of Galicia and Portugal: Their Acquisition and Administration 1075-ca.1230 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/the-cluniac-priories-of-galicia-and-portugal-their-acquisition-and-administration-1075-ca-1230/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/the-cluniac-priories-of-galicia-and-portugal-their-acquisition-and-administration-1075-ca-1230/#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2012 18:54:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32832 It goes without saying that two topics are central to progress on all the rest, and it is to these that the present paper will address itself. First, the problem of acquisition...Secondly, the problem of administration...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/the-cluniac-priories-of-galicia-and-portugal-their-acquisition-and-administration-1075-ca-1230/feed/ 0 The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI, 1065-1109 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/16/the-kingdom-of-leon-castilla-under-king-alfonso-vi-1065-1109/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/16/the-kingdom-of-leon-castilla-under-king-alfonso-vi-1065-1109/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:54:21 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28623 The reign of Alfonso VI was also to be the setting within which León-Castilla joined in the emergence of a new western Europe and itself also assimilated the new norms and structures that were being erected everywhere there.

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