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 ...

A unique and expansive 13th-century text that set out to chronicle the history of humankind is being translated and analyzed ...

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 title page itself announces the work’s ambitions: a composition… measured and delved to uncover allegory and parable in the words of Chazal, standing on the shoulders of giants like the Ibn Ez ...

The Majesties Of Medieval Spain. May 13, 2004. By Eve Zibart. PAINTINGS exist in two dimensions and aspire to three.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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.