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The ornament of the world : how Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in medieval Spain / María Rosa Menocal.
Author
Menocal, Maria Rosa
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Language
English
Published/Created
Boston : Little, Brown and Company, ©2002.
Description
xvi, 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, [12] pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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DP102 .M46 2002
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Subject(s)
Toleration
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Spain
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History
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Muslims
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Spain
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History
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Christians
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Spain
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History
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Jews
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Spain
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History
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Religions
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Relations
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Spain
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Civilization
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711-1516
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Spain
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Ethnic relations
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Spain
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Religion
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Europe
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Civilization
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Arab influences
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Europe
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Civilization
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Spanish influences
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Europe
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Relations
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Spain
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Spain
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Europe
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Summary note
Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as a young prince in exile--the last heir to an Islamic dynasty--founds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. Combining the best of what Muslim, Jewish, and Christian cultures had to offer, al-Andalus and its successors influenced the rest of Europe in dramatic ways, from the death of liturgical Latin and the spread of secular poetry, to remarkable feats in architecture, science, and technology. The glory of the Andalusian kingdoms endured until the Renaissance, when Christian monarchs forcibly converted, executed, or expelled non-Catholics from Spain.
Notes
Includes a reading group guide.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Beginnings
A brief history of a first-rate place
The palaces of memory
The mosque and the palm tree : Cordoba 786
Mother tongues : Cordoba, 855
A grand vizier, a grand city : Cordoba, 949
The gardens of memory : Madinat al-Zahra, south of Cordoba, 1009
Victorious in exile : the battlefield at Argona, between Cordoba and Granada, 1041
Love and its songs : Niebla, just west of Seville, on the road to Huelva, August 1064 ; Barbastro, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, on the road to Saragossa, August 1064
The church at the top of the hill : Toledo, 1085
An Andalusian in London : Huesca, 1106
Sailing away, riding away : Alexandria, 1140
The abbot and the Quran : Cluny, 1142
Gifts : Sicily, 1236; Cordoba, 1236 ; Granada, 1236
Banned in Paris : Paris, 1277
Visions of other worlds : Avila, 1305
Foreign dignitaries at the courts of Castile : Seville, 1364; Toledo, 1364
In the Alhambra : Granada, 1492
Somewhere in La Mancha : 1605
Epilogue: Andalusian shards.
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How Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in medieval Spain
ISBN
9780316566889
0316566888
0316168718
9780316168717
LCCN
2002512742
OCLC
51163915
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The ornament of the world : how Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in medieval Spain / María Rosa Menocal ; [foreword by Harold Bloom].
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