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Died October 15, 2012, Killingworth, Connecticut, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books The Ornament of the Wo, The Arts of Intimacy: Christian, The Arabic Role in Medieval, Shards of Love: Exile and the O, Writing Without Footnotes | ||
كتاب الأندلس العربية: ماريا روزا مينوكال ORNAMENT OF THE WORLD by Maria Rosa Menocal
Unveiling of Portrait of Maria Rosa Menocal (1953-2012) Yale University
María Rosa Menocal (1953-2012) was a Cuban-born scholar of medieval culture and history and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Menocal earned a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1986, she taught Romance philology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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- ORNAMENT OF THE WORLD by Maria Rosa Menocal
- Unveiling of Portrait of Maria Rosa Menocal 1953 2012 Yale University
- Publications
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In 2002, Menocal wrote the book The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, which has been translated into many languages, and includes an introduction by fellow Yale Sterling Professor in the Humanities Harold Bloom. The book focuses on tolerance in Medieval Spain within the Muslim and Christian kingdoms through political examples as well as cultural examples.
Menocal was director of the Yale Whitney Humanities Center for several years and was the co-editor of The Literature of Al-Andalus in the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature series.
She was the mentor of numerous scholars of medieval Iberia, including H. D. Miller, Maria Willstedt, Lourdes Maria Alvarez, Ryan Szpiech, Nadia Altschul, and the author Carolina Sanin. She was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2011 and inducted into the Fellows of the Medieval Academy in March 2012.
Menocal died of melanoma on October 15, 2012.