This volume brings together a team of leading scholars in Spanish studies to interrogate the contemporary significance of the medieval past, offering a counterbalance to intellectual withdrawal from urgent public debates.

Autorentext

SIMON R. DOUBLEDAY is Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University, USA.
DAVID COLEMAN is Associate Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University, USA.

Inhalt
The Currency of the Past; S. R. Doubleday Juan de Segovia and the Lessons of History; A. Marie Wolf Reading Don Quijote in a Time of War; L. Rouhi Memory and Mutilations: The Case of the Moriscos; M E. Perry Expulsion from Paradise: Exiled Intellectuals and Andalusian Tolerance; D. Filios Ghostly Returns: The Medieval 'Moor' and the Contemporary Moroccan Immigrant; D. Flesler Spain's New Muslims: A Historical Romance; L. Abend The Persistence of the Past in the Albaicín: Granada's New Mosque and the Question of Historical Relevance; D.Coleman Postscript: Futures of Al-Andalus; G. Anidjar