Catalog Search Results
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history volume 109
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Series
Medieval and early modern Iberian world volume 53
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as a young prince in exile--the last heir to an Islamic dynasty--founds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. Combining the best of what Muslim, Jewish, and Christian cultures had to offer,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Immediately recognized as a work of monumental importance, Chariots of the Gods endures as proof that Earth has been visited repeatedly by advanced aliens from other worlds. Here, Erich von Däniken examines ancient ruins, lost cities, spaceports, and a myriad of hard scientific facts that point to extraterrestrial intervention in human history. Most incredible of all, however, is von Däniken's theory that we are the descendants of these galactic...