María Rosa Menocal
April 9, 1953 (71 years old) in Havana, Cuba
María Rosa Menocal was a Cuban-born scholar of medieval culture and history and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2002 Menocal wrote the book The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, which has been translated into many languages. Menocal died of melanoma in 2012.
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- 2019 ·The Ornament of the Worldas Herself (Author, The Ornament of the World)