Moorish Spain

Resource Information

The work Moorish Spain represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Moorish Spain

Creator

• Fletcher, R. A., (Richard A)
• Fletcher, R. A., (Richard A.)

Subject

• Muslims -- Spain -- History
• Spain -- History -- 711-1516

Language

eng

Summary

Beginning in the year 711 and continuing for nearly a thousand years, the Islamic presence survived in Spain, at times flourishing, and at other times dwindling into warring fiefdoms. But the culture and science thereby brought to Spain, including long-buried knowledge from Greece, largely forgotten during Europe's Dark Ages, was to have an enduring impact on the country as it emerged into the modern era. In this gracefully written history, Richard Fletcher reveals the Moorish culture in all its fascinating disparity and gives us history at its best: here is vivid storytelling by a renowned scholar

Cataloging source

UkLiU

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction