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Author: S. Doubleday
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-08-04
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0230614086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together a team of leading scholars in Spanish studies to interrogate the contemporary significance of the medieval past, offering a counterbalance to intellectual withdrawal from urgent public debates.
Author: William A. Christian, Jr.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2022-03-08
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 0691242941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe description for this book, Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain, will be forthcoming.
Author: Gabriel Jackson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. Collins
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-07-30
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1403919771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of essays contains contributions from a very wide range of British, American and Spanish scholars. Its primary concern is the relationships between the various ethnic, cultural, regional and religious communities that co-existed in the Iberian peninsula in the later Middle Ages. Conflicts and mutual interactions between them are here explored in a range of both historical and literary studies, to expose something of the rich diversity of the cultural life of later medieval Spain.
Author: Charles L. Tieszen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-05-30
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9004192298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Christian Identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain Charles L. Tieszen explores a small corpus of texts from medieval Spain in an effort to deduce how their authors defined their religious identity in light of Islam, and in turn, how they hoped their readers would distinguish themselves from the Muslims in their midst. It is argued that the use of reflected self-image as a tool for interpreting Christian anti-Muslim polemic allows such texts to be read for the self-image of their authors instead of the image of just those they attacked. As such, polemic becomes a set of borders authors offered to their communities, helping them to successfully navigate inter-religious living.
Author: Roger Collins
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernard F. Reilly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-06-03
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521397414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the political evolution of the Iberian peninsula from late Roman imperial provinces to monarchies of the mid-fifteenth century, essays on the significant periods of medieval Spain sketch the major political, economic, social and intellectual features of their times.
Author: Kenneth Baxter Wolf
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780853235545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicle / John of Biclaro -- History of the Kings of the Goths / Isidore of Seville -- The Chronicle of 754 -- The Chronicle of Alfonso III.
Author: Brian A. Catlos
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018-05-01
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 0465093167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain spanning the millennium between the founding of Islam in the seventh century and the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the seventeenth In Kingdoms of Faith, award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos rewrites the history of Islamic Spain from the ground up, evoking the cultural splendor of al-Andalus, while offering an authoritative new interpretation of the forces that shaped it. Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain as a paradise of enlightened tolerance or the site where civilizations clashed. Catlos taps a wide array of primary sources to paint a more complex portrait, showing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews together built a sophisticated civilization that transformed the Western world, even as they waged relentless war against each other and their coreligionists. Religion was often the language of conflict, but seldom its cause -- a lesson we would do well to learn in our own time.
Author: Dario Fernandez-Morera
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2023-07-11
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1684516293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA finalist for World Magazine's Book of the Year! Scholars, journalists, and even politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—"al-Andalus"—as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: it is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise shines light on hidden history by drawing on an abundance of primary sources that scholars have ignored, as well as archaeological evidence only recently unearthed. This supposed beacon of peaceful coexistence began, of course, with the Islamic Caliphate's conquest of Spain. Far from a land of religious tolerance, Islamic Spain was marked by religious and therefore cultural repression in all areas of life and the marginalization of Christians and other groups—all this in the service of social control by autocratic rulers and a class of religious authorities. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise provides a desperately needed reassessment of medieval Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity," Fernández-Morera sets the historical record straight—showing that a politically useful myth is a myth nonetheless.
