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Patterson Pages: Adult Book Discussion Group
This month we are reading and discussing The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians created a culture of tolerance in Medieval Spain by maria Rosa Menocal. (2002)
Synopsis: Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as a young prince in exile--the last heir to an Islamic dynasty--founds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. Combining the best of what Muslim, Jewish, and Christian cultures had to offer, al-Andalus and its successors influenced the rest of Europe in dramatic ways, from the death of liturgical Latin and the spread of secular poetry, to remarkable feats in architecture, science, and technology. The glory of the Andalusian kingdoms endured until the Renaissance, when Christian monarchs forcibly converted, executed, or expelled non-Catholics from Spain. 315 p.
Copies of this title are available @ your library.
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Meets the third Saturday of each month at 1pm. New members are encouraged to attend!
- Date:
- Saturday, April 13, 2024
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- Time:
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Location:
- West End Meeting Room A
- Categories:
- Book Discussion
- Audience:
- Adults