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The Perquisite of a Medieval Wedding: Barbara of Cilli’s Acquisition of Wealth, Power, and Lands

Medievalists.net — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 23:44:09 +0000

The aim of my research will be on the one hand to highlight the beginnings of Barbara’s relationship with Sigismund; particularly their engagement and wedding...

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Emperor Frederick II, ‘Sultan of Lucera’, ‘Friend of the Muslims’, Promoter of Cultural Transfer: Controversies and Suggestions

Medievalists.net — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:48:57 +0000

Already in his own time, he aroused responses ranging from profound adoration to vehement rejection.

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Henry Ill’s Plans for a German Marriage (1225) and their Context

Medievalists.net — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:36:06 +0000

In this paper I would like to investigate how these and other factors influenced the two major marriage projects pursued by Henry III in 1225: the king himself was to marry a daughter of the duke of Austria, and his sister Isabella the son and heir of Emperor Frederick I, Henry (VII).

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Medieval Sicilian lyric poetry : poets at the courts of Roger II and Frederick II

Medievalists.net — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:16:07 +0000

During the twelfth century, a group of poets at the Norman court in Sicily composed traditional Arabic panegyrics in praise of the kingdoms Christian monarchs. Less than a century later, at the court of Frederick II, Sicilian poets wrote the first lyric love poetry in an Italian vernacular.

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Emperor Frederick II (1194–1250) and the political particularism of the German princes

Medievalists.net — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:26:22 +0000

After an extremely perilous early career during which he survived the plots of several adventurers, politicians, and churchmen who took advantage of the fact that he had lost both parents by the age of four, this child turned into one of the most admired and hated of all the powerful rulers in thirteenth-century Europe...

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Crusader inscription by Frederick II discovered in Israel

Medievalists.net — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:51:27 +0000

"This is the only Crusader inscription in the Arabic language ever found in the Middle East," say researchers.

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Frederick II: A bridge between East and West

Medievalists.net — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:28:01 +0000

Frederick II Hohenstaufen (1194-1250), inheritor of the Germanic Holy Roman Empire and the Normandic kingdom of Sicily, was brought up in the city of Palermo in a multicultural atmosphere par excellence.

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Saracen Archers in Southern Italy

Medievalists.net — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:47:22 +0000

The Normans, soon after the conquest of Sicily was complete, began using Sicilian Saracen mounted and foot archers as auxiliary troops: in 1076 they were included in the Guiscard army at the seizure of Salerno

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The Muslim Colony of Luceria Sarracenorum (Lucera)

Medievalists.net — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:10:58 +0000

The life and dispersion of Lucerine Muslims in Apulia (c.1220–1300) are examined from the onomastic point of view

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