María Rosa Menocal argues that Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe.
Marandiacute;a Rosa Menocal is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University, where she is Director of the Whitney Humanities Center. She is author of The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain and Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric.
"Solidly researched and splendidly written."--Comparative Literature "Beautifully written... A fascinating introduction to an area of medieval literacy still replete with nationalistic tensions."--Speculum "Calls for a wider acceptance of the idea that medieval Western culture was influenced more widely by Arabic thought."--Choice "Admirable for breadth of reading and attractive for its uncramped sympathies... A sobering reminder ... of the presence of much racism and chauvinism in literary and cultural history."--Relgion and Literature
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