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spec: Thank you very much . These absences may all be coincidental but I suspect instead that they [ 146 ] reflect a serious opposition to Alfonso VI in powerful court circles . The size of the court , as we envision it , also suggests that six more carts and carters must be added for dry provisions . The society of the medieval west understood the many kinds of power but it invariably turned from them eventually to the only source of proper authority it could conceive . If he were willing to make some minor concession to Henry and Teresa in order to soften the blow constituted by his decision on the succession question , these were not to be found in the realm of high ecclesiastical appointments . It is called democracy . Where were they then ? One must conceive cooks , grooms , drovers , and carters spreading over the countryside about their essential tasks of replenishment , sometimes paying and sometimes not , but in any event leaving the scant surpluses of eleventh-century larders and flocks sadly depleted and their owners contemplating with dismay the endless time before the next harvest , the next vintage , or the next foaling . As was his preferred practice , Alfonso expected his allies to defray the costs of his campaign . at least spec wise . `` 425 U.S. at 409 . `` Coquina Br. at 37 , citing Tr . Alaska Communications Systems Group , Inc .. All of these events demonstrate clearly that the Leonese monarch [ 361 ] continued until his death to regard the control of appointments to the episcopate of the realm as an indispensable prop of the royal authority . Immediately after I finished my dissertation , I returned to Calcutta , where I was born and brought up . The less social could always resort to dicing and board games , including even chess for the truly sophisticated of the highest circles .