By Simon R. Doubleday, David Coleman, Giles Tremlett
If the assumption of the medieval has been broadly deployed within the colonial and neocolonial West as a marker of cultural backwardness, the Anglo-American viewpoint has usually seemed Spain as a part of a traditionally underdeveloped international and as a late-comer to Protestant/Enlightenment traditions of democracy, tolerance, and development. but the numerous cultural dimensions of medieval Iberia make it pressingly appropriate to present opinions of western modernity. This quantity, which brings into discussion historians and literary students in medieval and glossy Iberian cultures, interrogates the modern value of the far away Spanish prior, really in regard to tensions within the courting among the West and Islam. Rejecting an illusory area of neutrality, the quest for relevance is anticipated as an ethically and politically valuable kind of inquiry.
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85. ” 86. html. 87. 3 (2006): 305–316. 88. Williams, Truth and Truthfulness, p. 260. 89. Marcus Bull, Thinking Medieval. An Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), p. 136. Cf. ” 90. Southgate, What Is History For? pp. 30–40. 91. ” 92. María Rosa Menocal, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (New York: Little, Brown, 2002). Menocal shares with Américo Castro the double role of having set the agenda for contemporary discussions of “relevance” and being significantly misrepresented by most parties to the debate.
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