Maria Rosa Menocal





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


Average rating: 3.83 · 438 ratings · 89 reviews · 12 distinct works
The Ornament of the World: ...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
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The Arabic Role in Medieval...
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Shards of Love: Exile and t...
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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The Literature of Al-Andalus
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Writing in Dante's Cult of ...
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions
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الأندلس العربية: إسلام الحض...
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The Literature of Al-Andalus
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Writing Without Footnotes: ...
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The Song of the Cid
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