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A Distant Mirror.(The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain)
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, by Maria Rosa Menocal (Little, Brown, 315 pp., $26.95)
This book will provide scant comfort to two loud and voluble constituencies in the contemporary world: Islamophobes and Wahhabis. By the former, I refer to those shallow types who use the horrors of Islamic extremism as a pretext to attack all of Islam and the civilization it has fostered. The latter denotes Muslims -- including many in the U.S. -- who justify terrorism on the basis of the fundamentalist death cult that rules Saudi Arabia. Both Islamophobes and Wahhabis seek to erase from history the ...
- From Cordoba to autos-da-fe: recent books on medieval Spain's religious...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Cruz, Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran February 10, 2006 700+ words
A VANISHED WORLD: MEDIEVAL SPAIN'S GOLDEN AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT...Board, asks in A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment...his efforts and may have died in North Africa trying to preach the Christian...
- The development of maritime law in medieval Spain: the case of Castile and the...
- Magazine article from: The Historian Green, Jennifer L. March 22, 1996 700+ words
...With this victory, Castile gained easier access not only to North Africa but also to the Atlantic Ocean.(4) Recent work by Olivia...between the Mediterranean ports of Sicily, Catalonia, and North Africa, and the Atlantic ports of England and Gascony. Previously...
- Lowney, Chris: A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of...
- Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books Najjaj, April June 22, 2005 700+ words
Lowney, Chris A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment New...Peter's College. A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment is...of the different religious groups in medieval Spain--Muslims, Christians, and Jews...
- History and the Historians of Medieval Spain.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Freedman, Paul June 22, 1994 700+ words
...erudition. Witty volumes on the subject of medieval Spain are rare, to say the least, but Peter...Reading History and the Historians of Medieval Spain requires considerable prior experience...unfortunate influence on modern historians of medieval Spain. Their interpretations have ...
- A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Pepin, Paulette L. September 22, 2006 700+ words
A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment...noble intellectual vitality: "Medieval Spain's enterprising, devout, imaginative...reminded of the vanished world of medieval Spain. Hispania was the centerpiece...
- Jews, Visigoths, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies Frank, Susan March 22, 1997 700+ words
...Jews and Muslims and Christians in Medieval Spain - Roth composes a collection of data...incidentally, enlarges the view of medieval Spain and its peoples that you might take...contributions to poetry and science in medieval Spain, the art and literature of the Spanish...
- Church, State, Vellum, and Stone: Essays on Medieval Spain in Honor of John...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2006 700+ words
...state, vellum, and stone; essays on medieval Spain in honor of John Williams. Ed. by...history of the art and architecture of medieval Spain will find much of value in this collection...the relation of church and state in medieval Spain, and the architecture of the medieval...
- Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Hernandez-Muzquiz, Rowena March 22, 2005 700+ words
Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain. By Joseph O'Callaghan. (Philadelphia: University of...threads of the complex relationships between the kings of medieval Spain, as well as between these monarchs and the papacy, which...
Source: HighBeam Research, A Distant Mirror.(The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and...