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	Alfonso VI of Castile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the cantar de gesta of the Cid, he plays the part attributed by medieval poets to the greatest kings, and to Charlemagne himself.
		He is alternately the oppressor and the victim of heroic and self-willed nobles — the idealized types of the patrons for whom the jongleurs and troubadours sang.
		He is the hero of a cantar de gesta which, like all but a very few of the early Spanish songs, like the cantar of Bernardo del Carpio and the Infantes of Lara, exists now only in the fragments incorporated in the chronicle of Alfonso the Wise or in ballad form.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfonso_VI_of_Castile (833 words)

	ALPHONSO - LoveToKnow Article on ALPHONSO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bernardo is the hero of a cantar de gesta (chanson de geste) written to please the anarchical spirit of the nobles.
		In the cantar dc gesta of the Cid he plays the part attributed by medieval poets to the greatest kings, to Charlemagne himself.
		He is alternately the oppressor and the victim of heroic and self-willed noblesthe idealized types of the patrons for whom the jongleurs and troubadours sang.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AL/ALPHONSO.htm (1139 words)

	the cid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		El Cid and also El Cid Campeador, is the name commonly used for the important Spanish knight and hero, Rodrigo (or Ruy) Díaz de Vivar (born in Vivar, Burgos, Spain circa 1045, died in Valencia, Spain in July 1099).
		He was unfairly exiled twice by the King of Castile, who deprived him of his property and illegally imprisoned his wife and daughters due to palace intrigues.
		The apocryphal tale of his journey into exile is told in "Cantar de Mio Cid", a cantar de gesta epic appearing shortly after his death; he reportedly marched stoically into exile with his soldiers and servants, and with tears in his eyes.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /The_Cid.html (843 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chapters four through eleven of the Chronicle, recounting the legendary foundation of the monastery of San Juan de la Pe—a, the Christian settlement of the district, and the history of the kings of Navarre up to the year 958, were based upon a unusual document contained in the monastic archives.
		The number and nature of these cantares de gesta suggest that the Aragonese were intensely interested in history, but not in immutable facts fixed forever on ink and parchment.
		In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the cantares de gesta adequately embodied Aragonese ambitions and aspirations.
	eserver.org /history/aragonese-historiography.txt (3412 words)

	El Cid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		El Cid (1045?–July 1099), also called El Cid Campeador, is the name commonly used for the important Castilian knight and hero, Rodrigo (or Ruy) Díaz de Vivar, who was born in Bivar (Vivar), Burgos, Castile, and died in Valencia.
		In 1999, a small sample of the blade was subjected to metallurgical analysis which partially confirmed its provenance as probably having been made in Moorish Cordoba in the eleventh century, although the report does not specify whether the larger-scale composition of the blade identifies it as Damascus steel.
		Literally dozens of works were written about the Cid, which include Le Cid by French playwright Pierre Corneille in 1636; and the three-part Spanish cantar de gesta epic Cantar de Mio Cid, also called The Lay of the Cid, The Song of the Cid, or El Poema del Cid.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/e/el/el_cid.html (2234 words)

	[No title]
		Bernart de Ventadour is even smaller than Guiraut de Bornelh by a thumb's length; but he had a servant for his father who shot well with the long bow while his mother tended the furnace." The satiric _sirventes_ soon found imitators: the Monk of Montaudon produced a similar composition.
		The extravagances of the previous age and the rise of a strong middle and commercial class diminished both the wealth and the influence of the nobles, while the peace of the country was further disturbed by theological disputes and by the rise of the Albigeois heresy.
		The famous _alba_ of Guiraut de Bornelh invokes the "glorious king, true light and splendour, Lord Almighty," for the purpose of praying that the lovers [90] for whom the speaker is keeping watch may be undisturbed in interchange of their affections.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/2/4/5/12456/12456-8.txt (18577 words)

	cantar -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In modern times it has been used specifically for an octosyllabic quatrain in which assonance occurs in the even-numbered lines and the odd-numbered lines are unrhymed with the accent falling on the last syllable.
		The earliest surviving monument of Spanish literature, and one of its most distinctive masterpieces, was the Poema (or Cantar) de mío Cid (“Song of My Cid”), an epic poem of the mid-12th century (the existing manuscript is an imperfect copy of 1307).
		Rodrigo Díaz was born about 1040, and most of his heroic deeds were performed during the struggle to expel the Moors from Spain.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9125157 (484 words)

	Cantar de Mio Cid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		El Cantar de Mio Cid is the oldest conserved Spanish cantar de gesta.
		One from San Esteban de Gormaz, Soria, who tried to portray the story more realistically, and other from Medinacelli who adds some more novelesque lines.
		De los sos oios tan fuertemientre llorando, Tornava la cabeça e estavalos catando; Vio puertas abiertas e uços sin cañados, alcandaras vazias, sin pielles e sin mantos e sin falcones e sin adtores mudados.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cantar_de_Mio_Cid (586 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nothing is known of his birth, but much of his later life is described in the chronicles, such as the conferring of his knighthood by Fernando I in the mosque of Coimbra after he had captured the city in 1064, and his marriage in 1074.
		The cantar de mio Cid is merely the most important single work in a great literature on the life of the Cid.
		An unknown poet wrote a cantar de gesta (c.1300) on the youthful exploits of Rodrigo, and this came to be called Las mocedades de Rodrigo.
	www.cid.mikau.net /name.htm (594 words)

	Iberian Chivalric Liturature
		El Passo Honroso de Suero de Quin~ones, by Pero Rodriguez de Lena, is a fifteenth century account of one knight's challenge to all passing knights to joust with him at the bridge of Orbigo, in northern Spain.
		One more or less intact cantar de gesta is the Poem of the Cid, which was first written down by Per Abbat in Castile in the early twelfth century.
		There are several parallels between Tirant's career, and the career of Roger de Flor, the commander of the Catalan Company, a mercenary outfit that ruled the Balkans for part of the fourteenth century.
	pages.ripco.net /~clevin/iberlit.html (2082 words)

	THE TROUBADOURS
		The descort of Raimbaut de Vaqueiras is written in five dialects, one for each stanza, and the last and sixth stanza of the poem gives two lines to each dialect, which Babel of strange sounds is intended, he says, to show how entirely his lady's heart has changed towards him.
		Bernart de Ventadour is even smaller than Guiraut de Bornelh by a thumb's length; but he had a servant for his father who shot well with the long bow while his mother tended the furnace." The satiric sirventes soon found imitators: the Monk of Montaudon produced a similar composition.
		The famous alba of Guiraut de Bornelh invokes the "glorious king, true light and splendour, Lord Almighty," for the purpose of praying that the lovers [90] for whom the speaker is keeping watch may be undisturbed in interchange of their affections.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/12456/12456-h/12456-h.htm (17184 words)

	Chanson de geste . King Arthur . Edmund Spenser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Robert de Boron s Merlin, later followed by Thomas Malory, Arthur obtained the throne by pulling a sword from a stone and anvil.
		Edmund Spenser came to Ireland in the 1570s, during the Elizabethan re-conquest of the country, hoping to acquire land and wealth there.
		Amora, plural Amoraim, from the Hebrew language Hebrew root amar "to say" or "tell over", were renowned Jewish scholars who "said" or "told over" the teachings of the Oral law, from about 200 to 500 CE in Babylonia and Palestine.
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Chanson_de_geste (212 words)

	Legends and Romances of Spain: I. The Source of Spanish Romance
		From the period of the defeat of Roderic, "last of the Visigoths," at the battle of Xerez de la Frontera in 711 until the fall of Granada in 1492, Spain was indeed a land of battles.
		But if the majority of the cantares de gesta are irreplaceable as regards their original form, we find fragments of them in the ancient chronicles of Spain.
		Some of them are, indeed, romances or cantares de gesta in title, and in fact they deal with all the great subjects sung of in the cantares or prosed upon in the chronicles, such as the Cid, Bernaldo de Carpio, Count Alarcos and so forth.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/lrs/lrs03.htm (8608 words)

	Zamora Mexico
		Plan Zamora is a land reform program in Venezuela, created in law by the ''Ley de Tierras'' ("Law of Land"), part of a package of 49 decrees made by Hugo Chávez in November 2001.
		There are three components to the law: a legal limit on the size of landholdings, which varies based on conditions between 1 and 50 km², a tax on unused land holdings, and a program for distribution of government and expropriated (with compensation) unused private lands.
		She was a factual person whose story was partially romanticised in the ''cantar de gesta'', the poetic ballad of the Cid.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/237/zamora-mexico.html (1337 words)

	Chapter 4: The Poem of Almería (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Crónica de Castilla, relating the wedding celebrations of the three daughters of Alfonso VI, designates the attendance of each class of artist: "....et otrosí fueron en aquellas bodas muchas maneras de yoglares ansí de boca como de peñola."
		He contends that in the general classification of the medieval epic, a fragment such as this poem merits significant consideration.
		His judgment allows for the Poem of Almería to be considered an original or secondary source for a cantar de gesta in the vernacular.
	libro.uca.edu /lipskey/alf4.htm (1059 words)

	silabo 2003
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		Cliquear aquí por: Unos aspectos de la literatura española medieval.
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	social.chass.ncsu.edu /~salstad/fls301 (2683 words)

	Reconquista (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After his death his son became a puppet in the hands of the great visir Almansur (which means the victorious).
		The mixing of Christians, Muslims and Jews was later officially ended by the rules of ethnic or religious purity of the Modern Age, namely the Spanish limpieza de sangre and the expulsion of Jews by Manuel I in Portugal.
		Real or imaginary episodes of the Reconquista are the subject of much of Mediaeval Spanish- and Catalan-language literature, such as the cantar de gesta.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Reconquista.htm (4617 words)

	cantar - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Cantar, cantar : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include cantar: cantar al estilo tiroles, cantar al estilo tirolés, cantar de gesta
	www.onelook.com /?w=cantar (112 words)

	The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Known for her prolific output and kindly, country persona, she was one of the most famous American folk artists of the 20th century.
		El Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), a Mexican celebration, is a day to celebrate, remember and prepare special foods in honor of those who have departed.
		In order to celebrate, the families make altars and place ofrendas (offerings) of food such as pan de muertos baked in shapes of skulls and figures, candles, incense, yellow marigolds known as cempazuchitl (also spelled zempasuchil) and most importantly a photo of the departed soul is placed on the altar.
	www.trinityofiniquity.com /srs5/sr_s5e6.htm (10831 words)

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