The arts of intimacy

"The Arts of Intimacy is the story of Iberia's medieval cities - Cordoba, Seville, and above all Toledo - from the eleventh through the fourteenth centuries, a watershed in the making of a world recognizably our own. This illustrated book presents a dynamic vision of medieval Castilian culture and the Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin traditions that intertwined to create it." "The study of the arts, architecture, and literature of nascent Castile reveals what church synods and political charters have b...