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The Jews in Sicily - Vol. 1
Book by Shlomo Simonsohn; Brill, 1997
Subjects: Cairo Genizah, Jews--Italy--Sicily--History--Sources, Sicily (Italy)--Ethnic Relations--History--Sources
...the French (the so-called Sicilian Vespers, 1282), the island was conquered...campagna in Sicilia; Runciman, Sicilian Vespers. 52. Doc. 186. Even if Benjamin...French in what is known as the Sicilian Vespers. The Aragonese under Peter...
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Outlines of Medieval History
Book by C. W. Previté-Orton; Biblo and Tannen, 1965
Subjects: Middle Ages--History
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Medieval Italy during a Thousand Years: A Brief Historical Narrative with Chapters on Great Episodes and Personalities and on Subjects Connected with Religion, Art and Literature
Book by H. B. Cotterill; George G. Harrap, 1915
Subjects: Italy--History--476-1492, Italy--History--To 476
...architecture. Built about 1130 by King Roger. The walls, arches, and apse are richly covered with very fine mosaics of the Norman-Sicilian school see pp. 446 - 448 . Note the slightly pointed arches, showing as at Monreale what may...
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A History of Medieval Spain
Book by Joseph F. O'Callaghan; Cornell University Press, 1975
Subjects: Portugal--History--Period Of Discoveries, 1385-1580, Portugal--History--To 1385, Spain--History--711-1516, Spain--History--Gothic Period, 414-711
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The Golden Honeycomb
Book by Vincent Cronin; Hart-Davis, 1954
Subjects: Sicily (Italy)--Description And Travel
...69 VIII THE SICILIANS 75...tells us most about him is Diodorus, a Sicilian who lived shortly before the time of...the men nor the women possess the usual Sicilian openness: they do not stand about the...
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Orientalism and the Nineteenth-Century Nationalist: Michele Amari, Ernest Renan, and 1848
Journal article by Karla Mallette; The Romanic Review, Vol. 96, 2005
Subjects: Amari, Michele--Works, Orientalism--Analysis, Renan, Ernest--Works
...government known as the Sicilian Vespers. Specifically...Guerra del vespro siciliano that provoked his...execution.... In the Vespers, the philologist...the Sicily of the Vespers. Amaris critics...Guerra del vespro siciliano had so convincingly...
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The Violence of Venus: Eroticism in Paradiso
Journal article by Jeremy Tambling; The Romanic Review, Vol. 90, 1999
Subjects: Dante Alighieri--Works, Literature--Excerpts, Romanticism--Analysis, Sexual excitement--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...is also that of hate. And the Sicilian Vespers comprise only the first of several...See Steven Runcimann, The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean...Manfredis son in law, after the Sicilian Vespers; he is seen in Purg. 7, 125...
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Muslim-christian Relations in Medieval Southern Italy
Journal article by Julie Anne Taylor; The Muslim World, Vol. 97, 2007
Subjects: Christians, Islam, Muslim Americans, Muslims, Religion
...Sicily to fight for the Angevins during the War of the Sicilian Vespers.29 Archers from the colony were sent on the ambitious...into slavery. In debt and fighting the War of the Sicilian Vespers, Charles was clearly motivated by economic as well...
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Ann Radcliffe and Natural Theology
Journal article by Anne Chandler; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 38, 2006
Subjects: Natural theology--Analysis, Natural theology--Religious aspects, Radcliffe, Ann Ward--Religious aspects, Radcliffe, Ann Ward--Works
...Forest. 1791. Ed. Chloe Chard. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986. --. A Sicilian Romance. 1790. Ed. Alison Milbank. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993...manifestations of her interest in natural sublimity, see Milbank, ed. A Sicilian Romance ix-xxix and Norton 77. On trends within Radcliffes...
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Bandello's "Timbreo and Fenicia" and the Winter's Tale
Journal article by Thomas E. Mussio; Comparative Drama, Vol. 34, 2000
Subjects: Bandello, Matteo--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Italian drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Italian literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...natural order. Belleforest also comments on the tales frame in which Bandello had recounted the Sicilian Vespers and the upheaval of the Sicilians against their French occupiers. For Belleforest, the uprising is an "abominable trahison, un bestiale...
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Zamora's Nuns in the Oven
Magazine article by Peter Linehan; History Today, Vol. 47, March 1997
Subjects: Catholic Church--History, Dominicans--History, Monasticism and religious orders for women--History, Spain--History
...Munio of Zamora owed his survival until 1290 to the Sicilian Vespers and their aftermath. For similar reasons the consequences...Cambridge University Press, 1992); Steven Runciman, The Sicilian Vespers (Cambridge University Press, 1958, and reprints...
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Nation-Building in 19th-Century Italy: The Case of Francesco Crispi
Magazine article by Christopher Duggan; History Today, Vol. 52, February 2002
Subjects: Crispi, Francesco--Biography, History--19th century, Italy--History, Nationalism--Italy
...the expedition of the Thousand, the 25th anniversary of the taking of Rome in 1870 and the 600th anniversary of the Sicilian Vespers. And he worked hard at his own image -- the more parliament seemed prey to weakness and corruption, the more he felt...
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War by Other Means: The Legacy of Byzantium
Magazine article by Michael Antonucci; History Today, Vol. 43, February 1993
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History, Diplomacy--History
...Michael VIII helped instigate the War of the Sicilian Vespers, in which native Sicilians rose up against Angevin rule. The rebellion...was Gods instrument to bring freedom to the Sicilians, then I should only be stating the truth...
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Medieval Barbarism?
Magazine article by Len Scales; History Today, Vol. 49, October 1999
Subjects: Ethnic relations--History, Middle Ages--History, Persecution--History, Social history--Medieval, 500-1500
...not everywhere able to achieve integration. Charles of Anjous bid to swallow Sicily was famously rebuffed in the `Sicilian Vespers of 1282, amid a popular clamour of `death to the French! Flanders, Languedoc and the British Isles are other regions...
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Two - Make That Three - Cheers for the Chain Bookstores: Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Books-A-Million Have Enormously Enriched the Nation's Cultural Life
Magazine article by Brooke Allen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, July 2001
Subjects: Bookstores
...happened to be looking for at the time and that were tried-and-true standards in their fields but not best sellers: The Sicilian Vespers, by Steven Runciman; The Sixth Extinction, by Richard Leakey; The Music at Long Verney, a recently and posthumously...
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Domingo Announces WNO's 50th Season
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 11, 2004
Subjects: Domingo, Placido
...will include Giuseppe Verdis "I vespri siciliani" ("Sicilian Vespers"), Richard Wagners "Das Rheingold" ("The Rhine Gold...himself, who will conduct performances of "I vespri siciliani." The companys music director, Heinz Fricke, will...
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Opera's Verdi a Golden Moment
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 19, 2005
...Spiazzis sumptuous costuming adds the right touch of pageantry. "I Vespri Siciliani" ("The Sicilian Vespers") recounts a little-known 13th-century Sicilian revolt against tyrannical French occupiers. Amid a confusing backdrop of intrigue and betrayal...
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National Opera Celebrates 50
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 19, 2005
...Verdis "I Vespri Siciliani" ("The Sicilian Vespers"). "Im just happy that everyone...as a large chorus portraying a Sicilian uprising against French occupying...leading tenors role in "I Vespri Siciliani" was "the most difficult part...
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Keeping Tradition Alive
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 12, 2009
...chapel, is a replica of one in the groupAEs Sicilian hometown Ciminna. The festival begins with Vespers, an evening service, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday...the crucifix at 3 p.m. accompanied by the Sicilian Band of Chicago, followed by a traditional...
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Review ITALIAN REFLECTIONS RLPO; in Association with LIVERPOOL.COM
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), September 28, 2007
...as its entries. Dispensing with the advertised National Anthem, the programme started with Verdis Overture to his Sicilian Vespers. A measured opening led to a sudden and exciting shift in tone, with the overture alternatively lyrical and turbulent...
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Vespers, Sicilian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VESPERS, SICILIAN see Sicilian Vespers . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Sicilian Vespers
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SICILIAN VESPERS in Italian history...rebellion staged by the Sicilians against the Angevin French...Palermo at the start of Vespers on Easter Monday, Mar. 30...Although basically a move for Sicilian independence, the insurrection...
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Roger of Loria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...III . Peter was chosen king of Sicily after the Sicilian Vespers (1282), and in his service Roger commanded the Aragonese...Aragon, Roger fought with the Angevins against the Sicilians. In 1302 he retired to Catalonia. Loria is also spelled...
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Charles II , King of Naples
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and successor of Charles I . In the war of the Sicilian Vespers between Charles I and Peter III of Aragon for possession...and recognition of Charles II as king in 1295. The Sicilians, however, refused to accept the reestablishment of...
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Peter III , King of Aragón and King of Sicily
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sicily and S Italy. After the insurrection of the Sicilian Vespers against Charles I of Anjou, Peter was offered...Peter and defeated at sea by Roger of Loria . Peters Sicilian venture was unpopular with the Aragonese nobility...
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