St. James Matamoros-Maura

[Xosé Manuel Alvariño]

Hi Maura. This is one of those subject that could be approached in different 
ways. Though I tend to agree with u, largely, this period in Spain is 
historiaclly known  as THE CONVIVENCIA, & even though it wasn't paradise all 
the time for Moslems/Christians/Jews living together...I don't know, maybe 
they had a better go at it than we're having right now....Simplistic, I know, 
but...  What do u think?

Abrazos de de Xosé Manuel

In a message dated 2/25/2003 9:32:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
maurasantangeloaSTNY.RR.COM writes:

> Actually I share your views, but decided to keep them out of the list
> considering previous blunders into politics, I am always stunned when I
> read in American publications about how the Moors Jews and Christians
> all lived happily together in Andalusia.  It is somewhat silly not to
> discuss the true history of the pilgrimage and what it meant and how it
> molded Europeans.
> 
> I share a racial memory of fear with other Europeans about Muslims and
> denying that it is there does not make it go away.  I am reminded of
> the incursions of the Saraceni every time I see lookout towers on the
> coast of Tuscany.  I see the current incursion and the changes that it
> is bringing as being no less problematic than previous ones at the tip
> of a scimitar.  On the other hand there probably would have been no
> Italian Renaissance without the Muslims.
> 
> After all is said and done my name is Spanish and not Italian, some
> ancestor left Spain sometime around 1492 or so family legend has it,
> and the name might and does suggest a converso,
> 
> Maura
> 
> 

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