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The Ornament of the World

How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

By: Maria Rosa Menocal

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The Ornament of the World

How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

By: Maria Rosa Menocal

This classic bestseller — the inspiration for the PBS series — is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance (Los Angeles Times). This enthralling history, widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain, where for more than seven centuries Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance, and where literature, science, and the arts flourished. "It is no exaggeration to say that what we presumptuously call 'Western' culture is owed in large measure to the Andalusian enlightenment...This book partly restores a world we have lost." —Christopher Hitchens, The Nation

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Back Bay Books

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0316092797

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The Arts of Intimacy

Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture

By: Jerrilynn Denise Dodds,Maria Rosa Menocal,Abigail Krasner Balbale

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The Arts of Intimacy

Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture

By: Jerrilynn Denise Dodds,Maria Rosa Menocal,Abigail Krasner Balbale

In this way the culture of medieval Spain is relevant to our own world both enriched and anguished by its diversity. The Arts of Intimacy is a vital book, dedicated to telling the story of the complexity of interactions between the three monotheistic religions in medieval Spain - yielding lessons that can be drawn through to our experience today. The volume serves as a souvenir of Spanish history and culture, and an invitation to examine how a complex culture is deeply shaped by both receptivity and conflict."--BOOK JACKET.

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395

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0300106092

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9780300106091

The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History

A Forgotten Heritage

By: Maria Rosa Menocal,María Rosa Menocal

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The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History

A Forgotten Heritage

By: Maria Rosa Menocal,María Rosa Menocal

Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries. In this ground-breaking book, now returned to print with a new afterword by the author, María Rosa Menocal argues that major modifications of the medieval canon and its literary history are necessary. Menocal reviews the Arabic cultural presence in a variety of key settings, including the courts of William of Aquitaine and Frederick II, the universities in London, Paris, and Bologna, and Cluny under Peter the Venerable, and she examines how our perception of specific texts including the courtly love lyric and the works of Dante and Boccaccio would be altered by an acknowledgment of the Arabic cultural component.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812200713

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9780812200713

The Ornament of the World

How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

By: Maria Rosa Menocal

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How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

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Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth

From Borges to Boccaccio

By: Maria Rosa Menocal

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Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth

From Borges to Boccaccio

By: Maria Rosa Menocal

Using the works of Dante as its critical focus, María Rosa Menocal's original and imaginative study examines questions of truth, ideology, and reality in poetry as they occur in a series of texts and in the relationship between those texts across time. In each case, Menocal raises theoretical issues of critical importance to contemporary debates regarding the structure of literary relations. Beginning with a reading of La vita nuova and the Commedia, this literary history of poetic literary histories explores the Dantean poetic experience as it has been limited and rewritten by later poets, particularly Petrarch, Boccaccio, Borges, Pound, Eliot, and the all but forgotten Silvio Pellico, author of Le mie prigioni. By blending discussions of Dante's own marriage of literature and literary history with those investigations into the imitative qualities of later works, Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth presents an intertextual literary history, one which seeks to maintain the uncanniness of literature, while imagining history to be neither linear nor clearly distinguishable from literature itself.

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Duke University Press

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0822311178

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9780822311171

Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity

By: Nadia Maria El Cheikh

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Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity

By: Nadia Maria El Cheikh

When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads in 750 CE and ushered in Islam’s Golden Age, ideas about gender and sexuality were central to the process by which the caliphate achieved self-definition and articulated its systems of power and thought. Nadia Maria El Cheikh’s study reveals the importance of women to the writing of early Islamic history.

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Harvard University Press

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0674736362

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Mapping the World Differently

African American Travel Writing About Spain

By: Maria Christina Ramos

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Mapping the World Differently

African American Travel Writing About Spain

By: Maria Christina Ramos

This book examines the rich collection of travel writing about Spain by twentieth-century African American writers as Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Frank Verby, surveying the ways in which such authors perceive Spain's place in the world. From the vantage point of Spain, these African American writers create transformative literary maps of the world that invite readers to reconsider their relations to others.

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Universitat de València

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8491341641

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Married To A Daughter Of The Land

Spanish-Mexican Women And Interethnic Marriage In California, 1820-80

By: Maria Raquel Casas

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Married To A Daughter Of The Land

Spanish-Mexican Women And Interethnic Marriage In California, 1820-80

By: Maria Raquel Casas

The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California. Until recently, most studies of the colonial period of the American West have focused on the activities and agency of men. Now, historian María Raquél Casas examines the role of Spanish-Mexican women in the development of California. She finds that, far from being pawns in a male-dominated society, Californianas of all classes were often active and determined creators of their own destinies, finding ways to choose their mates, to leave unsatisfactory marriages, and to maintain themselves economically. Using a wide range of sources in English and Spanish, Casas unveils a picture of women’s lives in these critical decades of California’s history. She shows how many Spanish-Mexican women negotiated the precarious boundaries of gender and race to choose Euro-American husbands, and what this intermarriage meant to the individuals involved and to the larger multiracial society evolving from California’s rich Hispanic and Indian past. Casas’s discussion ranges from California’s burgeoning economy to the intimacies of private households and ethnically mixed families. Here we discover the actions of real women of all classes as they shaped their own identities. Married to a Daughter of the Land is a significant and fascinating contribution to the history of women in the American West and to our understanding of the complex role of gender, race, and class in the Borderlands of the Southwest.

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University of Nevada Press

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0874177146

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Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth

From Borges to Boccaccio

By: Maria Rosa Menocal

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From Borges to Boccaccio

By: Maria Rosa Menocal

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Duke University Press

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Book's by Maria Rosa Menocal

The Ornament of the World

The Ornament of the World

The Arts of Intimacy

The Arts of Intimacy

The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History

The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History

The Ornament of the World

The Ornament of the World

Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth

Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth

Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity

Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity

Mapping the World Differently

Mapping the World Differently

Married To A Daughter Of The Land

Married To A Daughter Of The Land

Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth

Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth

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