A Medieval “Phenomenon?”: A Historiographical Critique of Convivencia

Discusses the development and sociocultural history of Spain in the 7th-15th century, the relations of Christians, Muslims, and Jews, and a critique of the traditional interpretations of this time period as either a golden age of ecumenical tolerance, or as an essentially bloodthirsty and fanatical era of religious warfare bridled only by a practical concern for survival and returned to whenever opportunity arose.