Maria Rosa Menocal on Medieval Spain

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Historian Maria Rosa Menocal is the author of “The Ornament of the World.”  She tells Anne Strainchamps about the Golden Age for European Jews when the Moors established an Islamic state in Spain. She says Moorish Arab culture was prosperous, technologically and culturally advanced and tolerant of different religions.