Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Maria Rosa Menocal, Abigail Krasner Balbale

Broschiertes Buch

The Arts of Intimacy

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

Beschreibung

Chronicles the tumultuous history of Castile in the wake of the Christian capture of the Islamic city of Tulaytula, now Toledo, in the eleventh century and traces the development of Castilian culture as it was forged in the intimacy of Christians with the Muslims and Jews they had overcome.

Autor

Jerrilynn D. Dodds is distinguished professor and senior faculty advisor to the provost for undergraduate education, City College of New York. She lives in New York City. María Rosa Menocal is director, Whitney Humanities Center, and Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. Her previous book, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, has been translated into seven languages. She lives in New York City. Abigail Krasner Balbale is a candidate for the Ph.D. in history and Middle Eastern studies at Harvard University, where she focuses on the cultural history of medieval Iberia. This is her first book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1112g
• ISBN-13: 9780300142143
• ISBN-10: 0300142145
• Artikelnr.: 27933049