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Article: A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2006
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A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment. By Chris Lowney. (New York, N.Y.: Free Press, 2005. Pp. 303. $26.00.)
One is immediately drawn to this absorbing study by its rather curious title. Was not the medieval era, especially in the milieu of the Iberian Peninsula, enlightened, or was it barbarism dominated by religious strife between Muslims and Christians and devoid of intellectual and rational consciousness ? Are not students taught that Spain's "Golden Age" began with Columbus's discovery of the New World and its abounding riches of gold and silver, which, in turn, transformed Spain into a sixteenth-century world power? Chris Lowney's ...