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

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

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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.

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

The Arts of Intimacy

María Rosa Menocal argues that Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe.

A Forgotten Heritage

The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History

Om Al-Andalus' intellektuelle historie. Den er især kendetegnet ved områdets berømte filosofiske og teologiske skoler

Orta Çağ İspanyası'nda örnek bir medeniyet

Dünyanın incisi: Endülüs

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.

Describes the field; reviews the literature; constructs a model to guide future studies; and explains methods for conducting research on writing in academic disciplines. The volume contains material of importance to researchers and to teachers and administrators. Explores how subsequent poets, including Pound and Eliot, have used and modified Dante's ideas about the relation of literature to history, ideology, and other realities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

From Borges to Boccaccio

Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth

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.

Maria Rosa Menocal

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