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In 2002, Menocal wrote the book The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, which has been translated into many languages, and includes an introduction by fellow Yale Sterling Professor in the Humanities Harold Bloom. The book focuses on tolerance in Medieval Spain within the Muslim and Christian kingdoms through political examples as well as cultural examples.

Menocal also is the author of The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History: A Forgotten Heritage (1987), as well as Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth from Borges to Boccacio (1991) and Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric (1994).

Born in Cuba and raised in Philadelphia, Menocal is currently director of the Yale Whitney Humanities Center and the co-editor of The Literature of Al-Andalus in the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature series.]]> 292846 0316168718 9780316168717 44 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173465602m/292846.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173465602s/292846.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/292846.The_Ornament_of_the_World_How_Muslims_Jews_and_Christians_Created_a_Culture_of_Tolerance_in_Medieval_Spain 3.83 176 84777 3.84 189 49 2002 495657 0812213246 9780812213249 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175222637m/495657.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175222637s/495657.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/495657.Arabic_Role_in_Medieval_Literary_History_A_Forgotten_Heritage 4.67 3 84777 3.84 189 49 1990 146426 0822311046 9780822311041 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146426.Writing_in_Dante_s_Cult_of_Truth_From_Borges_to_Boccaccio 4.00 1 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.]]> 84777 3.84 189 49 1991 5920997 0143105655 9780143105657 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255673560m/5920997.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255673560s/5920997.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5920997.The_Song_of_the_Cid 3.50 4 From a legendary translator: a magnificent new rendering of Spain’s national epic

Venture into the heart of Islamic Spain in this vibrant, rollicking new translation of The Song of the Cid, the only surviving epic from medieval Spain. Banished from the court of King Alfonso, the noble warrior Rodrigo Diaz, know as the Cid, sets out from Castile to restore his name. In a series of battles, he earns wealth and honor for his men and his king, as well as fame and admiration for himself. But it is in rescuing his daughters from their ill-suited marriages that the Cid faces the ultimate challenge to the medieval heroic ideal.]]> 1436 3.78 71866 7514 84777 3.84 189 49 8994 3.43 5792 295 2009 2721450 8842809055 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2721450.Principi_Poeti_E_Visir 0.0 0 84777 3.84 189 49 2002 495658 1586841319 9781586841317 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/495658.Writing_Without_Footnotes_The_Role_of_the_Medievalist_in_Contemporary_Intel 0.0 0 84777 3.84 189 49 2001 6665511 0812280563 9780812280562 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665511-the-arabic-role-in-medieval-literary-history 0.0 0 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.

]]> 84777 3.84 189 49 1987 495655 003061564X 9780030615641 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/495655.Primavera 0.0 0 276499 0.0 0 0 84777 3.84 189 49 1983 3896071 0300142145 9780300142143 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3896071.The_Arts_of_Intimacy_Christians_Jews_and_Muslims_in_the_Making_of_Castilian_Culture 0.0 0
The authors paint a portrait of the culture through its arts, architecture, poetry and prose, uniquely combining literary and visual arts. Concentrating on the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the book reveals the extent to which Castilian identity is deeply rooted in the experience of confrontation, interaction, and at times union with Hebrew and Arabic cultures during the first centuries of its creation. Abundantly illustrated, the volume serves as a splendid souvenir of southern Spain; beautifully written, it illuminates a culture deeply enriched by others.]]> 625183 4.50 2 1 84777 3.84 189 49 1915169 0.0 0 0 2010