Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources

Book Overview

For some historians, medieval Iberian society was one marked by peaceful coexistence and cross-cultural fertilization; others have sketched a harsher picture of Muslims and Christians engaged in an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812215699
• ISBN13: 9780812215694
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Good stuff

This collection of primary sources concerning the history of Medieval Iberia is quite good for undergraduate study of Muslim Spain, with useful introductions to each source. The predominance of Christian sources may be explained by the fact that many Muslim sources are no longer extant(or did not exist in the first place), particularly concerning the Mozarabic population(Christians under Arab-Berber dominion).

The best anthology of primary sources available

This is the most thorough and up-to-date collection of primary sources relating to the history of medieval Spain yet available. It brings together a vast ocean of important and illustrative Jewish, Christian and Muslim sources, many of which have never before been translated. Readers, especially historians, will find much of value in this carefully-selected and thoughtfully arranged anthology. Few other collections give such a sense of the richness and diversity of medieval Iberian society.