Al-Andalus, Sepharad and medieval Iberia cultural contact and diffusion by Corfis, Ivy A.

Table of Contents: “…Hames -- Ibn Rushd/Averroes and "Islamic" rationalism / Richard C. Taylor -- Music in medieval Iberia : contact, influence and hybridization / Dwight F. …”

Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse

Subjects: “…Goliards -- Songs and music -- Texts…”
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Headlines in history the 1400s

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Politics in fifteenth-century Europe -- Eyewitness to the battle of agincourt -- Joan of arc -- Conquest of constantinople -- Eyewitness to Turkish invasion -- Spanish inquisition -- Life of John Hus -- Ivan the great unifies Russia -- Flowering culture of the ming dynasty -- Chapter 2 -- Citizen armies of England -- Fifteenth-century home life -- Women in the middle ages -- Keeping clean -- Medieval medical practices -- Fashions of the renaissance -- Sailing to the holy land -- Rules for clergymen -- Chapter 3 -- Travels in fifteenth-century venice -- Renaissance rulers of florence -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Leonardo's ideas on flying -- Renaissance in music -- Printing press changes the world -- Chapter 4 -- Building of the Aztec empire -- Quetzalcoatl: Great God of the Aztecs -- Aztec human sacrifice -- Inca empire -- Growing up in Inca society -- Chapter 5 -- Exploits of the Chinese dragon fleet -- Portuguese explorations in Africa -- African kingdoms in the 1400s -- Culture clash in black and white -- Da gama navigates to India -- Christopher Columbus: Admiral of the ocean sea -- Columbus describes the new world.…”

The ultimate ambition in the arts of erudition a compendium of knowledge from the classical Islamic world by Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb 1279-1333