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Alfonso IX

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alfonso IX 1171-1230, Spanish king of León (1188-1230), son and successor of Ferdinand II. He conquered from the Moors several cities in Estremadura and was frequently at war with Alfonso VIII of Castile. His marriages with Teresa of Portugal and Berenguela of Castile were both annulled by the pope. He defeated (1230) the Moors at Mérida. His son by Berenguela, Ferdinand III, reunited (1230) León and Castile. Author not available, ALFONSO IX. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Alfonso III
Alfonso III The Portuguese king Alfonso III (1210-1279) reigned from 1248 to 1279. He completed...presided over the country's first parliaments. On May 5, 1210, Alfonso was born in Coimbra, the second son of Alfonso II and Urraca. In 1227 he went to France, where he fought as a vassal of Louis ... Read more
Alfonso VIII
(Alfonso the Noble), 1155-1214, Spanish king of Castile (1158...restored order after assuming (1166) the government. Alfonso took (1177) Cuenca from the Moors, but later (1195) he...Alarcos. León and Navarre then invaded Castile, but Alfonso forced them to make peace, annexing Álava and Guipúzcoa...victory ... Read more

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; Alfonso Fontanelli. Complete Madrigals. Edited...Acknowledgments, p. vii; introd., p. ix-xxn; 4 plates; score (with pref. to...the nobleman, courtier, and composer Alfonso Fontanelli (1557-1622) can at last...the Este family, most notably of Duke Alfonso II during the years 1588 to 1597. In... Read more
The New World's Old World: Photographic Views of Ancient America/Cerámica y Cultura: The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayólica
; ...Castleberry. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 269. Illustrations. Bibliography. $47.50 cloth. Cermica y Cultura...Mexican Maylica. Edited by Robin Harwell Gavin, Donna Pierce, and Alfonso Pleguezuelo. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003... Read more
LA ALTERNATIVA.(teatro, España)(TT: The alternative.)(TA: theater, Spain)
; ...en Magallanes, 1, de Madrid!). Pero el IX Festival Alternativo de Teatro, Mú...pocos pensaron que se podría llegar al IX Festival de 1998. Las salas alternativas...Es hora de aclarar algunas cosas. Este IX Festival Alternativo de Teatro, Mú...alternativas en el teatro, donde, en palabras de ... Read more
Critican inclusion de General.(Estados)
; ...Zeferino Torreblanca, que no designe al ex comandante de la IX Región Militar, Heriberto Salinas Altés, como titular...Recordó que cuando Salinas Altés estuvo al frente de la IX Región Militar, con sede en Acapulco, en Guerrero fue desaparecido el profesor Gregorio Alfonso ... Read more
Complete Unaccompanied Madrigals.(Book review)
; ...viii; acknowledgments, p. ix; introd., p. xi-xxii; texts...acknowledgments, p. viii; introd., p. ix-xviii; texts, trans., and commentary...under the music-loving Duke Alfonso II at the court of Ferrara...madrigal books by Gesualdo, Alfonso Fontanelli (1557-1622), and...who married a niece of Duke ... Read more
Historical picturesque: adapting Great Expectations and Sense and Sensibility.
; ...film and the aesthetic of the picturesque, the author proposes Alfonso Cuaron's counterpicturesque film as a model for heritage adaptations...forgotten how to think historically in the first place (Jameson ix). Thus, for Jean-Francois Lyotard, postmodernism's nostalgia...Great Expectations, adapted by Mitch ... Read more
City of Knowledge - Salamanca's Intellectual Heritage.
; ...every continent, and the university's Spanish language program is considered the best in the world. Founded in 1218 by Alfonso IX, the university is ranked the fourth oldest in Europe (after those in Paris, Bologna, and Oxford, respectively). For... Read more
Contemporary Cinema of Latin America: Ten Key Films
; ...Cinema of Latin America: Ten Key Films New York: Continuum, 2003, ix + 206 pp. Continuum Press has published a number of key texts...the rebirth of Mexican cinema that began in the early 199Os: Alfonso Arau's Like Water for Chocolate (1991) and Alejandro Iflarritu... Read more
A Companion to U.S. Latino Literatures
; ...Caulfield and Darien J. Davis. Rochester: Tamesis Books, 2007. Pp. ix, 235. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85.00 cloth. The cover of...Mary Gonzlez, sketched with apocryphal venom in the writings of Alfonso Hernndez Cat. The encounter ends with Marti's tribal epitaph... Read more
El fin del milenio resucita el gusto por la música medieval.(TT: The end of the century revives taste for medieval music)
; ...de ellos dedicados a las Cantigas de Alfonso X el Sabio, uno protagonizado por la...repertorio que existe desde el siglo IX hasta el siglo XIII. Aunque la grabaci...ellos pertenecientes a las Cantigas de Alfonso X el Sabio, y otros dos dedicados uno...Cantigas de Santa María del rey Alfonso X ... Read more

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