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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Maria Rosa Menocal |
ISBN: | 0316168718 9780316168717 |
OCLC Number: | 183353253 |
Notes: | Includes a reading group guide in back of book. "April 2002 [i.e. 2012]"--Title page verso. Corrected publication date from ReadingGroupGuides online site: August 27, 2012. "Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, May 2002"--Title page verso. |
Description: | xvi, 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
Contents: | List of maps -- Foreword / Harold Bloom -- A note on transliterations and non-English names -- Beginnings -- Brief history of a first-rate place -- The palaces of memory -- The mosque and the palm tree : Cordoba, 786 -- Mother tongues : Cordoba, 855 -- Grand vizier, a grand city : Cordoba, 949 -- 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 -- Postscript -- Other readings -- Thanks -- Index. |
Other Titles: | How Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in medieval Spain |
Responsibility: | María Rosa Menocal ; [foreword by Harold Bloom]. |
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' An illuminating and even inspiring work..By showing us what was lost Menocal reminds us of what might be.' - LOS ANGELES TIMES
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