[lbo-talk] Saudi anti-Semitism

[C. G. Estabrook]

The Alhambra Decree that expelled Jews from Castile and Aragon in 1492 was an 
indication of the survival (particularly in Aragon) of the "open" Middle Ages 
(v., e.g., Friedrich Heer, Europäische Geistesgeschichte) in the era of 
intellectual shutting-down (and the rise of capitalism) that paradoxically came 
to be called "the Renaissance."  More backward areas had taken care of the 
matter long before (e.g., England 1290). --CGE

Dennis Claxton wrote:
> 
>> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> the Moorish Enlightenment, exterminated by the Inquisition and the 
>> Expulsion under their Most Catholic Majesties Ferdinand and Isabella 
>> of Spain,
> 
> 
> In a book called Shards of Love, Maria Rosa Menocal engagingly fleshes 
> out the argument that the day Columbus set sail on his first voyage to 
> the New World, August 2, 1492,  was the very same day the edict 
> expelling Jews from Spain went into effect:
> 
> 
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/0822314053/ref=sib_fs_top/026-5268746-3685268?ie=UTF8&p=S00L&checkSum=imDYr4RDhc%2FPgSnP0xHWns%2BnE%2BOeSTZBW5zEnvLYIb8%3D#reader-page 
> 
> 
> 
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk