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