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Tribute Of 100 Virgins
The tribute of 100 virgins ( es, tributo de las cien doncellas) was a legendary annual tribute of one hundred virgin maidens paid by the Christian kingdom of Asturias to the Muslim emirate of Córdoba. Fifty were to be of noble birth and fifty commoners.M. Manzanares de Cirre, "Las cien doncellas: trayectoria de una leyenda", '' PMLA'', Vol. 81, No. 3 (Jun., 1966), pp. 179-184, https://www.jstor.org/stable/460802, retrieved August 15, 2015. The tribute has been called "historically apocryphal but ideologically accurate... It plays an intriguing role in the formation and affirmation of ''reconquista'' ideology in the later Middle Ages, and also remains a powerful site in Spanish national cultural memory to this day."Emily C. Francomano, "The Legend of the Tributo de las cien doncellas: Women as Warweavers and the Coin of Salvation", '' Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos'', Vol. 32, No. 1, Autumn 2007, pp. 9-25, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27764172, retrieved August 10, 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribute
A tribute (; from Latin ''tributum'', "contribution") is wealth, often in kind, that a party gives to another as a sign of submission, allegiance or respect. Various ancient states exacted tribute from the rulers of land which the state conquered or otherwise threatened to conquer. In case of alliances, lesser parties may pay tribute to more powerful parties as a sign of allegiance and often in order to finance projects that would benefit both parties. To be called "tribute" a recognition by the payer of political submission to the payee is normally required; the large sums, essentially protection money, paid by the later Roman and Byzantine Empires to barbarian peoples to prevent them attacking imperial territory, would not usually be termed "tribute" as the Empire accepted no inferior political position. Payments ''by'' a superior political entity to an inferior one, made for various purposes, are described by terms including " subsidy". The ancient Persian Achaemenid Empir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
