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Maria Rosa Menocal

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María Rosa Menocal is a scholar of medieval culture and history. Menocal earned a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the Yale University faculty in 1986, she taught Romance philology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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 Literar...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 438 ratings · 89 reviews · 12 distinct works

	The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal, Harold Bloom (Foreword by) 3.81 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History: A Forgotten Heritage 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Literature of Al-Andalus 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Bocaccio 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	الأندلس العربية: إسلام الحضارة وثقافة التسامح by Maria Rosa Menocal, عبد المجيد جحفة (ترجمة), مصطفى جباري (ترجمة) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Literature of Al-Andalus by Maria Rosa Menocal (Editor), Raymond P. Scheindlin (Editor), Michael A. Sells (Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	My rating:
	Writing Without Footnotes: The Role of the Medievalist in Contemporary Intellectual Life: Bernardo Lecture Series, No.10 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	The Song of the Cid by Anonymous, Maria Rosa Menocal (Introduction), Burton Raffel (Translator) 3.40 avg rating — 1,089 ratings — published 1084 — 67 editions	My rating:
	The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture by Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Maria Rosa Menocal, Abigail Krasner Balbale 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:

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