Articles with keyword "Middle Ages"
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Thieves of Pleasure
A vicious fraternal war rewards Alfonso VI with the artistic and poetic treasures of al-Andalus.
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How to Lose Weight and Gain Power
From The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of a Castilian Culture, © 2008 by Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale.
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Dante: Auctor, Autore
The question of authority among writers nags us less today than it did in the late Middle Ages, when poets and philosophers began daring to pen their works in the vernacular.


