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Medieval Spain: 500 Years of Cultural Tolerance and Learning

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A brief history of medieval Spain and Portugal as an Islamic center of cultural tolerance and learning. The 12th-century discovery of classical and Islamic learning in Spain sparked the subsequent Renaissance and the making of our modern Western world. This class will be a brief summary of how Islamic Spain came to be, and the lasting cultural and intellectual accomplishments that survived its demise.