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	SICILIAN VESPERS - LoveToKnow Article on SICILIAN VESPERS
		Charles proposed to settle the Sicilian question by a single combat between himself and Peter; but although the duel was agreed upon it never took place, owing to the mutual distrust of the two rivals.
		Peace was made with the treaty of Caltabellotta in 1302, which left Sicily an independent kingdom under Frederick for that princes lifetime; and although at his death it was to have reverted to the Angevins, he was actually succeeded by his son, and the island retained its independence for a considerable period.
		Undoubtedly the Vespers and its consequences revived Sicilian nationalism after the period of degrading Angevin oppression, and with the new dynasty a higher civilization, nearly rivalling that which had flourished under the Hohenstaufens, an improved constitution, and fine military qualities were the outcome.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VE/VESPERS_SICILIAN.htm (1109 words)

	Sicilian Vespers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sicilian Vespers is the name given to a rebellion in Sicily in 1282 against the rule of the Angevin king Charles I, who had taken control of the island with Papal support in 1266.
		Charles regarded his Sicilian territories as a springboard for his Mediterranean wide ambitions, which included the overthrow of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus.
		According to Steven Runciman, Sicilians at the church were engaged in holiday festivities and a group of French officials came by to join in and began to drink.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sicilian_Vespers (700 words)

	Sicily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sicilian politics was intertwined with politics in Greece itself, leading Athens, for example, to mount the disastrous Sicilian Expedition during the Peloponnesian War.
		Conflict between the Hohenstaufen house and the Papacy led in 1266 to Sicily's conquest by Charles I, duke of Anjou: opposition to French officialdom and taxation led in 1282 to insurrection (the Sicilian Vespers) and successful invasion by king Peter III of Aragón.
		Sicilian dialects are also spoken in the southern and central sections of the Italian regions Calabria (Calabrese) and Puglia (Salentino); and had a significant influence on the Maltese Language, which was a part of the Kingdom of Sicily (in its various forms) until the late 18th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sicily (2756 words)

	Sicilian Vespers
		It was only in the fifteenth century, during the excitement aroused by the passing of Charles VIII (Nov., 1494), that the expression "Sicilian Vespers" and the legend of the Easter bells calling the insurgents to arms seem to have originated.
		It was only when Charles of Anjou appeared before Messina with all his troops that the Sicilian nobles called to their aid King Pedro III of Aragon, and the other towns only approved this action when it seemed to them impossible to resist Charles of Anjou.
		The results of this revolt were considerable, as it proved the death blow to all the projects for the domination of the East formed by Charles of Anjou.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/sicilian_vespers.html (774 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sicilian Vespers
		Vespers is the evening prayer service in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox liturgies of the canonical hours.
		The Kingdom of Naples was born out of the division of the Kingdom of Sicily after the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282.
		Events English conquest of Wales begins under Edward I of England Sicilian Vespers - Sicilians rebel against Charles of Anjou and are aided by Peter III of Aragon Births Pope Innocent VI Deaths August 25 - Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford October 13 - Nichiren December 11 - Llywelyn the Last, Prince of Wales...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sicilian-Vespers (1963 words)

	History of SICILY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Sicilians, however, are less enchanted by the arrival of French nobles (to whom large tracts of Sicilian land are distributed as feudal territories) and by high taxes imposed on them to pay for the military campaigns of Charles of Anjou.
		Sicilian resentment against the new Angevin dynasty breaks out suddenly in the uprising of 1282 known as the Sicilian Vespers.
		As early as 1314 the Sicilian parliament declares that the terms of the treaty of Caltabellotta should be disregarded, and that Frederick should be succeeded by his son Peter rather than the kingdom reverting to the Angevins.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=3465&HistoryID=ab60 (1282 words)

	Sicilian History
		Tancred - Sicilian barons rebel and choose Tancred, a grandson of Roger II to be king of Sicily.
		The War of the Sicilian Vespers--the revolt of the Sicilians against the rule of the ANGEVINS--began spontaneously at the time of vespers (evening worship) on Easter Monday, 3/31/1282, and over the next several months it resulted in the massacre of almost the entire French population of Sicily.
		Although the Sicilians ultimately lost the battle, the enemy forces were so devastated that they could not proceed to attack Messina, which was the capitol of Sicily at that time.
	dieli.net /SicilyPage/History/SicilianHist.html (3055 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sicilian Vespers (Italian History) - Encyclopedia
		Sicilian Vespers, in Italian history, name given the rebellion staged by the Sicilians against the Angevin French domination of Sicily; the rebellion broke out at Palermo at the start of Vespers on Easter Monday, Mar. 30, 1282.
		Although basically a move for Sicilian independence, the insurrection was instigated as part of a widespread conspiracy against the Angevin ruler of Naples and Sicily, King Charles I, who dreamed of establishing an Angevin empire in the East.
		Peter accepted the throne offered by the Sicilians, and a 20-year war for possession of Sicily followed between the Angevin kings of Naples and the Aragonese kings of Sicily.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Sicilian.html (346 words)

	Vespers: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vespers on Broadway by Mary Pat Kelly The Sound of Music When it comes to popular culture, nuns and kids have been...life, wear the traditional habit, and chant the hours in Latin.
		The vespers hymn from the liturgy of the consecration of a Catholic church, one of the oldest surviving Latin liturgies, speaks of the...
		SICILIAN VESPERS in Italian history, name given the rebellion staged by the Sicilians...domination of Sicily; the rebellion broke out at Palermo at the start of Vespers on Easter Monday, Mar. 30, 1282.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/vespers.jsp?l=V&p=1 (1637 words)

	Sicilian Vespers on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		SICILIAN VESPERS [Sicilian Vespers] in Italian history, name given the rebellion staged by the Sicilians against the Angevin French domination of Sicily; the rebellion broke out at Palermo at the start of Vespers on Easter Monday, Mar. 30, 1282.
		John of Procida, a loyal supporter of the Hohenstaufen, and King Peter III of Aragón, who claimed rule of the island as the husband of Constance, heiress of the Hohenstaufen claim there, also joined the intrigue.
		The rising secured Sicilian independence for more than a century, with the house of Aragón keeping Sicily and the Angevin dynasty holding the S Italian mainland kingdom of Naples.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Sicilian.asp (370 words)

	Search Results for "Vespers"
		In the Roman rite, vespers have consisted since the 6th cent.
		...Sicilian Vespers, in Italian history, name given the rebellion staged by the Sicilians against the Angevin French domination of Sicily; the rebellion broke out at...
		...IT happened one day, close on the hours of vespers, that I had to go at an unusual time for me from my house to my workshop; for I ought to say that the latter was...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Vespers (280 words)

	Two Sicilies, Kingdom of, 1848-49 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Efforts on the part of the government of Ferdinand II (1830-59) to enact economic and agrarian reform had been thwarted by evasion of the law and corruption, and much of the drive for Sicilian autonomy was prompted to avoid outside meddling with the usurpation of the land by a minority.
		In 1842, Michele Amari's history of the medieval Sicilian vespers escaped the royal censors and was read by many on the island as an evocation of its lost independence.
		Conscription had been repudiated by the Sicilian parliament, and the number of effective forces raised, armed, and trained for defense of the entire island was less than the Neapolitan army sent against Messina.
	www.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/rz/twosicil.htm (1872 words)

	Sicily Books - Best of Sicily Book Selections
		On 30 March 1282, as the church bells of Palermo were sounding vespers, a crowd of Sicilians descended upon a party of French soldiers, the enforcers of Angevin rule over the island.
		A Sicilian journalist remarked that "these Americans come to Palermo every few years to make movies about the Sicily their grandfathers remember, and the memories aren't even very accurate." At all events, the screenplay itself deviated somewhat from the story recounted in Puzo's book, which was written as a "quasi-sequel" to The Godfather.
		Like polyglot Sicilian history itself, Sicilian cuisine is a phenomenon that brings together the influences of all the societies that conquered or colonized the island.
	www.bestofsicily.com /books.htm#lampedusa (8061 words)

	Lex Scripta
		One legend has it that the insurrection began on the stroke of the vesper bell, when a French sergeant molested a Sicilian woman and was fatally stabbed by her husband, and a bloody massacre of the French followed.
		Yet the Sicilians strongly supported the patriotic uprising against an oppressive French regime, and the legend of the Sicilian Vespers took on a new significance in the mid-19th Century as a calling-cry for Italian nationalism in the lead-up to reunification of the Italian state.
		The legend of the Sicilian Vespers - a legend based largely in fact, although embellished to create a more compelling narrative - is not unlike the process of authorship which Hampson describes as taking “an irregular piece from the jigsaw of experience and...
	www.lexscripta.com /articles/sicilian.html (1120 words)

	Alibris: Vespers
		Vesper, a Madonna-like rock star, happens to have mystical supernatural powers, and while she may be a talented singer, it's these powers that fuel her success, distorting her image and how many of the public perceive her: a witch, demon, whore, saint, disciple.
		The Vespers of Palermo and the Forest Sanctuary
		Lawrence Mott's study of the War of Sicilian Vespers provides an unprecedented view of the internal organization and operations of a medieval fleet.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Vespers (706 words)

	The Sicilian Vespers (Steven Runciman) - book review
		The main narrative traces the history of the conflict between the Papacy and the Empire in central and southern Italy, the papal selection of Charles of Anjou to supplant the Hohenstaufen rule in Sicily and southern Italy, and the attempts to restore the Hohenstaufens.
		It describes the planning by Charles of an attack on Constantinople and culminates in an account of the Sicilian Vespers, the bloody uprising of Sicily against the Angevins, and the conquest of the island by Aragon.
		The Sicilian Vespers is pure political and military history, with no discussion of the social or economic background.
	dannyreviews.com /h/The_Sicilian_Vespers.html (309 words)

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		In their wisdom, the Sicilian parliament replaced the Medusa head with one that is less threatening to the innocent onlooker who, after all, should not be anticipating being turned to stone.
		The Sicilian language is embroidered with the ancient tongues of its conquerors.
		The Sicilian bloodline, basically, is not Italian; it is a mixture of the nationalities that occupied the Island over the centuries.
	www.bellanti.org /Sicily.htm (1261 words)

	Chapter Sibyl's Books <i>to</i> Siegfried of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Sicilian Bull (The), the brazen bu invented by Pe rillos for the tyrant Phalaris, as an engine of torture.
		Sicilian Vespers (The), the massacre of the French in Sicily, which began at Palermo, March 30, 1282, at the hour of vespers, on Easter Monday.
		This slave is loved by Adraste, a French gentleman, and the plot of the comedy turns on the way that the Frenchman allures the Greek slave away from her master.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1129/14993/1.html (572 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: The Real Sicilian Vespers
		Sicilians then stormed through the city yelling "Moranu il Franchkisi" (in local dialect, "death to the French"), massacring every Frenchman they found, lay or cleric.
		Sicilians, resisting ecclesiastical and military pressure to submit again to Angevin rule, fought on with pride and ferocity for 20 more years, even after John of Procida himself deserted them and reconciled with Rome in 1298.
		Even more, defiant seeds were planted by the Sicilian Vespers that eventually led to the Reformation, the rise of nation-states, even the American and French Revolutions.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/620.html (1893 words)

	Sicilian Food and Cooking, History and Development
		Since their vegetables are of superior taste and quality, no Sicilian would defile them by creating complex dishes that mask the fresh flavor of their ingredients.
		With the abundance of fish, this changed, and a classic Sicilian dish in the province of Trapani, is couscous cooked with the broth of the local fish to give it a seafood flavor.
		When the Sicilians began to arrive in large numbers, in the years after 1900, they found some of their foodstuffs in these Neapolitan stores, and their cuisine adapted to the Neapolitan.
	www.inmamaskitchen.com /FOOD_IS_ART/sicilian_food_cooking.html (3058 words)

	Sicilian Vespers -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		(1282) massacre of the French with which the Sicilians began their revolt against Charles I, Angevin king of Naples and Sicily; it precipitated a French-Aragonese struggle for possession of that kingdom.
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		Second to the mass in liturgical importance was the service called vespers, which included psalms, hymns, antiphons, and the Magnificat.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9067619 (587 words)

	Sicilian Vespers -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Peter III of Aragon, Charles's rival for the Neapolitan throne, conspired to raise a rebellion against him in Sicily.
		The son of Peter III acceded to the throne of Aragon as James II and made peace with the papacy, France, and the Angevins (to whom he renounced Sicily), by the Treaty of Anagni (June 1295).
		But the Sicilians took as their king James's brother, Frederick III, who finally secured the kingdom for himself by the Peace of Caltabellotta (August 31, 1302), beginning a long period of Spanish hegemony on the island.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9067619 (767 words)

	History
		Charles' later years were troubled by Sicilian rebellion, marked most prominently by the Sicilian Vespers uprising of 1282.
		The Sicilians, unhappy with heavy tax burdens and the moving of the capital to Naples, massacred the French garrison and offered the crown instead to Peter III of Aragon.
		The sixth tale of Day Two is set in Sicily during the period of Charles of Anjou's reign, around the time of the Sicilian Vespers.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/history/characters/charles_i_anjou.shtml (332 words)

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