The ornament of the world : how Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in medieval Spain /

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 Isla...

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Main Author: Menocal, Maria Rosa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Little, Brown, [2002]
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