[Gocamino] Matajudios????

[robert ward]

And if you want another book for the pile, try The End of Days by Erna Paris, subtitled "A story of tolerance, tyranny, and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain."


--- On Wed, 5/6/09, claire bangasser <claire.bangasser at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

From: claire bangasser <claire.bangasser at wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Matajudios????
To: Gocamino at oakapple.net
Received: Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 7:53 PM

Along the same vein, I can recommend Chris Lowney's A Vanished World,  
Muslims, Christians and Jews in Medieval Spain.
It was an eye-opener to me.
claire

On May 6, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Bridget Highfill wrote:

> Thanks for the book recommendation, Linda.  I would also like to  
> recommend The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal.  She does  
> not go into detail about the reasons for the persecutions by the  
> Catholic Monarchs, but it is a wonderful book about multicultural  
> Spain.
> And, People of the Book byGeraldine Brooks is a well researched,  
> fictionalized account of the Sarajevo Haggadah that discusses Spain  
> in some detail.
> Happy reading to all of us medieval buffs.
> Bridget
>

> --- On Wed, 5/6/09, Linda McInnis <mrfsealah at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> For an excellent history of this period, I highly recommend "The  
> Dogs of
> God" by James Reston, Jr.  You'll never think of 1492 the same way.
> Spain
> once had a culture where Christians, Muslims and Jews lived in  
> probably the
> most harmonious society that ever was before or has been since.  What
> happened?  Read the book!
>
> Linda in Colorado



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