Medieval+Spain

MEDIEVAL SPAIN toc

Library Resources
  One Search (Destiny Online Catalog--Login Required) allows you to search multiple databases at one time and create citation list of those sources: ** Keyword: Muslims AND Jews AND Spain to search for information about the relationship between the Muslim and Jews in Spain. **

=** Web sources ** =
 * ." [|Internet History Sourcebooks] ." // FORDHAM.EDU //. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. < [] >.// **Annotation: Internet Medieval Sourcebook** provides research information on medieval Spain including information on the Visogoths, the Inquisition and Jewish contributions to Spain. //
 *  "[|Timeline of the Muslim Presence in the Iberian Peninsula]." // Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia // . Web. 29 Oct. 2011. <[]>. // Annotation: Expansive timeline of Muslim presence in Spain. Useful for understanding the conquest of Spain, key individuals and places. Excellent source for identifying keywords for further research. //

//**I. Los árabes/moros** //
//**(Arabs and Moors and they contribution)**//
 * Abd al-Rahman (conquest of Abassids at Cordoba by serving heir of the Umayyad Dynasty
 *  Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Yahya al-Zarqali (b.1028 d.1087): Astronomer. See latinized name as Arzachel was a Spanish Arab.
 * Tariq ibn Ziyad-Muslim general whoconquered last king of the Visigoths, King Roderick, at Cordoba in 720..

//Sources for reading and research://
 * Wells, H.G. "Intellectual Revival of Europeans." A Short History of the World. 1922. Web. []. Describes contributions made by Arabs and Jews. You will have to skim the paragraphs looking for terms including: Arabs, Saraciens, Jews. Use CNTL + F to use the computer search to locate sections focusing in on your topics.
 * "Jews and Muslims." World Eras. Ed. Jeremiah Hackett. Vol. 4: Medieval Europe, 814-1350. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. 397-401. Gale Virtua Reference Library. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. Search title in Gale Virtual Reference Database.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Philosophy Among the Muslims and the Jews. n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <[]>

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//**II. Los Castillos/Alcazares**//

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Castillos de Espana. [] (In Spanish)//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"La Alhambra de Granada".Arthistorian.com . [] (In Spanish)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Mezquita de Cordoba." Arthistorian.com [] (In Spanish)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">//**III. Clases sociales**//
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Clases sociales en los tiempos medievales/El papel de las mujeres en la sociedad y la historia
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Women and gender in Medieval Europe: An encyclopedia. by Margaret Schaus. [Search title under Google Books]. [|http://books.google.com/books?id=aDhOv6hgN2IC&pg=PA15&dq=women+medieval+society+spain&hl=en&ei=2cbcTPWRCM6hngeXqqAX&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=women%20medieval%20society%20spain&f=false]//

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//IV. El sistema económico en los tiempos medievales//

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Training Children for Work: Apprenticeships." World Eras. Ed. Jeremiah Hackett. Vol. 4: Medieval Europe, 814-1350. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. 350-351. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.Document URL[]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//V. El Cid//

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//" Cid ." //Encyclopædia Britannica //.// Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition//. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010. Web. 5 Nov. 2010 <[] //

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** //VI. La historia española hasta el año 711// **

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//"Islamic Spain." History for Kids. 9 Nov 2010. []//
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//"Timeline of 8th Century Muslim History". [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_8th_century_Muslim_histor]//


 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">756 **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -"Abd al-Rahman assembled forces loyal to him, Syrians and Berbers combined, and one day in May 756, a battle just outside the city walls of Cordoba decisively changed the face of European history and culture. (Menocal 19).

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//VII. La historia del año 711 al 1492//
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// 8. Las cruzadas religiosas //
 * //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**1121** //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// "Almohads." [] // See Ibn Tūmart (d. 1130) [Spiritual ruler].
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1135 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maimonaides (Ramban-hebreo) [] . Author of //The Guide to the Perplexed//.
 * **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1166 **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">John of Spain: Philosopher; d. Toledo, 1166. A converted Jew, he lived principally in Toledo and became bishop of Segovia in 1149, and then became the archbishop of Toledo. He is credited for having translated many arabic tex
 * //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**1420-1498** //
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Torquemada, Tomás de. ""Although of Jewish descent, Torquemada probably encouraged the monarchs to attack both the orthodox Jews and those crypto-Jews who had been insincerely or forcibly converted to Christianity but continued to practice Judaism in secret. " //(see Biography in Context)//
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chami, Pablo A. "La Inquisición en España". Junio de 1999. [// Curso dictado en el CIDICSEF, __ [|Centro de Investigación y Difusión de la Cultura Sefardí] __ por el Ing. Pablo A. Chami.] Junio de 1999. //
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chami, Pablo A. "La Inquisición en España". Junio de 1999. [// Curso dictado en el CIDICSEF, __ [|Centro de Investigación y Difusión de la Cultura Sefardí] __ por el Ing. Pablo A. Chami.] Junio de 1999. //
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Crusades." Compton's by Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010. Web. 15 Nov. 2010 <[]>.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The Crusades." Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Web. 15 Nov 2010. []

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//IX. Los judíos y sus contribuciones//
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Judah ha-Levi


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Medieval Spain: Muslims, Jews and Christians". [Introductory course description].11 Nov 2011. []
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jews and Muslims. n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <[]>.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Judah ha-Levi." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. []
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Maimonides, Moses." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. [] [see also Rashi]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Manuel I." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. []
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"ibn Ezra, Moses." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010. Web. 10 Nov. 2010 <[]>.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"St. Teresa of Avila." //Arts and Humanities Through the Eras//. Ed. Edward I. Bleiberg, et al. Vol. 4: Renaissance Europe 1300-1600. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 308-309. //Gale Virtual Reference Library//. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.Document URL [] [Note: St. Teresa of Avila was the daughter of a converso]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//X. Los reyes católicos y la reconquista//

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//"Isabella".// New Advent Encyclopedia//.11 Nov. 2010. []//
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//"Queen Isabella."// Luminarium: Encyclopedia Project//.. 11 Nov 2010. []//

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//XI. La literatura y el arte del año 711 al 1492//

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Ávila: medieval walls and the old city//. Video. //Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition//. Web. 14 Nov. 2010 <[]>.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Córdoba, Mosque-Cathedral of: dome of the mihrab//. Photograph. //Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition//. Web. 15 Nov. 2010 <[]>.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Judah ha-Levi." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. []
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Maimonides, Moses." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. [] [see
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Pelayo." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010. Web. 14 Nov. 2010 <[]>.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Note: Pelayo became a symbol of Christian resistance in medieval Spanish history and literature. Though he survived the Visigoth's, he was imprisoned in Cordoba in 717.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//12. La España romana//
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// **Spain, Roman Occupation-** //// **206 B.C.E.-409 A.D** // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**//Seneca//**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Additional Links & topics
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Internet Medieval Sourcebook **Internet Medieval Sourcebook for Iberia from Fordham University. Includes information about the Visogoths, the Inquisition and Jewish Spain.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ANTI-SEMITISM <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"anti-Semitism." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. <[] See article section on anti-semitism in Medieval SPAIN (we do not carry

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"CultureGrams Kids Edition: Spain: Muslims and Jews in Spain." CultureGrams - Kids Edition. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. <[]>.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jews and Muslims. n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <[]>.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. <[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Maimonides, Moses." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Manuel I." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Philosophy Among the Muslims and the Jews. n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <[]>.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Arabic philosophy." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">CATHOLIC REFORMATION <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Catholic Reformation, Counter-Reformation. n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <[|http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?&contentSet=h&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3034600163&source=gale&userGroupName=leyden&version=1.0]>.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SPAIN-THE COUNTRY

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spain Guide -- National Geographic. n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <[]>.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Toledo, Spain, Photos - National Geographic. n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <[]>.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Toledo, Spain, Santa María La Blanca, 1981, Photo ... n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <[]>.

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