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For Thursday, 1/22/09:

• Lowney (textbook), 1-14
• Mohammad Al-Asad, "Encounters: A Preliminary Anatomy," Gesta XLIII/2, 177-81
• Thomas Glick, "Convivencia: An Introductory Note," Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain (New York, 1992), 1-9
• Bernard F. Reilly, "Medieval Spain, A.D. 500-1200," in The Art of Medieval Spain A.D. 500-1200 (NY, 1993), 3-11

For Tuesday, 1/27/09:

• Lowney (textbook), 15-27
• Isidore of Seville, "In Praise of Spain," from History of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi (624), trans. Kenneth B. Wolf (from Medieval Iberia, ed. Olivia Remie Constable (1997), 3-4)
• "Visigothic Legislation Concerning the Jews," from Olivia Remie Constable, ed., Medieval Iberia. Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources (Philadelphia, 1977), 21-23
• The Art of Medieval Spain A.D. 500-1200 13-16; 40-44 (on reserve)

For Thursday, 1/29/09:

• Lowney (textbook), 29-42
• Jerrilynn D. Dodds, ed., Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain (New York, 1992), xix-xxiii, and 3-9 (on reserve)

For Tuesday, 2/3/09:

• Jerrilynn D. Dodds, "The Great Mosque of Córdoba," in Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain (New York, 1992), 10-25 (on reserve) --or-- Nuha N. N. Khoury, "The Meaning of the Great Mosque of Cordoba in the Tenth Century," Muqarnas 13 (1996), 80-98
• Jonathan M. Bloom, "Mosque Towers and Church Towers in Early Medieval Spain," in Thomas W. Gaehtgens, ed., Künstlerischer Austausch = Artistic exchange I (1993), 361-71

For Thursday, 2/5/09:

• María Rosa Menocal, The Ornament of the World. How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (2002), 79-100

For Tuesday, 2/10/09:

• Francisco Prado-Vilar, "Circular Visions of Fertility and Punishment: Caliphal Ivory Caskets from al-Andalus," Muqarnas 14 (1997), 19-41

For Thursday, 2/12/09:

• Lowney (textbook), 55-78

For Tuesday, 2/17/09:

• Achim Arbeiter and Sabine Noack-Haley, "The Kingdom of Asturias," in The Art of Medieval Spain A.D. 500-1200 ((New York, 1993), 113-19 (on reserve)
• Lowney (textook), 43-53

For Thursday, 2/19/09:

• O.K Werckmeister, "Art of the Frontier: Mozarabic Monasticism," in The Art of Medieval Spain A.D. 500-1200 ((New York, 1993), 121-32 (and take a look at the catalog entries) (on reserve)

For Thursday, 3/5/09:

-review the readings for Tuesday, 2/19:

• O.K Werckmeister, "Art of the Frontier: Mozarabic Monasticism," in The Art of Medieval Spain A.D. 500-1200 ((New York, 1993), 121-32 (and take a look at the catalog entries) (on reserve)

• Note: if you are interested in exploring so-called "Mozarabic" manuscripts further, you should look at John Williams, Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination (New York, 1977) (ND 3199 .W54)

For Tuesday, 3/17/09:

• Cynthia Robinson, "Seeing Paradise: Metaphor and Vision inTaifa Palace Architecture," Gesta 36 (1997), 145-55
• Manuel Casamar Perez, "The Almoravids and Almohads: An Introduction," in al-Andalus. The Art of Islamic Spain (on reserve), 75-83
• Sabiha Kemir, "The Arts of the Book," in al-Andalus. The Art of Islamic Spain (on reserve), 115-25

• suggested further reading (for those who are interested):
  • Cynthia Robinson, "Arts of the Taifa Kingdoms," in al-Andalus. The Art of Islamic Spain (on reserve), 49-61

For Tuesday, 3/24/09

• John W. Williams, "León and the Beginnings of the Spanish Romanesque," in The Art of Medieval Spain A.D. 500-1200 ((New York, 1993), 167-73 (on reserve)

For Thursday, 3/26/09:

• Serafín Moralejo, "On the Road: the Camino de Santiago," in The Art of Medieval Spain A.D. 500-1200 ((New York, 1993), 175-83 (on reserve)

For Tuesday, 3/31/09:

• David Raizman, "The Church of Santa Cruz and the Beginnings of Mudejar Architecture in Toledo," Gesta 38 (1999), 128-41

For Thursday, 4/2/09:

• Jerrilynn D. Dodds, "Mudejar Tradition and the Synagogues of Medieval Spain: Cultural Identity and Cultural Hegemony," in Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain (New York, 1992), 113-31 (on reserve)
• "Jews, Moors, and Christians under the King's Authority," in Remembering Sepharad. Jewish Culture in Medieval Spain (Washington, 2003), 139-56 (on reserve)

For Tuesday, 4/14/09:

• Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, "Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts from the Iberian Peninsula," in Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain (New York, 1992), 133-55 (on reserve)

  --OR--

• Katrin Kogmann-Appel, "Hebrew Manuscript Painting in Late Medieval Spain: Signs of a Culture in Transition," Art Bulletin 84 (2002), 246-72

For Tuesday, 4/21/09:

• Tonia Raquejo, "The 'Arab Cathedrals': Moorish Architecture as Seen by British Travellers," Burlington Magazine 128 (1986), 555-63

For Thursday, 4/23/09:

• Darío Cabanelas Rodríguez, "The Alhambra: An Introduction," in al-Andalus. The Art of Islamic Spain (on reserve), 127-33
• James Dickie, "The Palaces of the Alhambra" in al-Andalus. The Art of Islamic Spain (on reserve), 135-51