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A unique and expansive 13th-century text that set out to chronicle the history of humankind is being translated and analyzed ...
One of the world’s most unique and important texts—the General e grand estoria will soon be translated, analyzed and made ...
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise. Muslims, Christians and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain. By Dario Fernandez-Morera. ISI Books, 2016. 336 pages, $29.95 ...
He might well have been speaking of medieval Spain, which regularly features in contemporary cultural debates. According to taste, it was either “the front line of a ‘clash of civilizations’; a ...
The Majesties Of Medieval Spain. May 13, 2004. By Eve Zibart. PAINTINGS exist in two dimensions and aspire to three.
Could an 11th-century contract prove the existence of same-sex marriage in medieval Spain? Story by José Miguel Andrade • 10mo. I n 1061, two men, Pedro Díaz and Munio Vandilaz, ...
Thus, the mass expulsions of late medieval Spain drew on centuries of hate, even as they marked a turning point. In 1492, and during the years that followed, tens of thousands of Jews fled Spain ...
An archaeogenetic study sheds new light on the isolated medieval community Las Gobas in northern Spain. Besides isolation and endogamy, researchers have also identified the variola virus, which ...
In medieval Spain, and notably in Toledo, Muslims, Christians and Jews lived side by side before the Reconquista and the Inquisition. It’s a subject that Martinez, ...
It was rock hard. Archaeologists have found a 6-inch stone penis that may have been used to sharpen swords in Spain during the tumultuous 15th century.
Before there was Jamestown and even before there was Roanoke, there was Spain's Fort San Juan, in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of the fort ...