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Article: From Cordoba to autos-da-fe: recent books on medieval Spain's religious conflicts offer lessons for today.(A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment; The Spanish Inquisition)(Book Review)
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- February 10, 2006
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A VANISHED WORLD: MEDIEVAL SPAIN'S GOLDEN AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT By Chris Lowney Free Press, 336 pages, $26
THE SPANISH INQUISITION By Joseph Perez; translated by Janet Lloyd Yale University Press, 256 pages, $26
Taken together, two recent books about Spanish history span from seventh-century pre-Islamic and Visigothic Spain to the 18th century, yet their authors convince us that the Spanish example from centuries past constitutes a lesson for our society today.
Spurred by the terrorist attacks in New York and Madrid that have taken place since 2001, Chris Lowney, a former Jesuit, former managing director for J.P. Morgan and current assistant to ...