San Antonio College Library

Andalusia was a part of the Islamic World for nearly eight hundred years. The gardens here are a reminder of this period. How did this epoch shape garden art in southern Spain and what role did handicrafts and architecture have in all of this? In this program, we set out on a voyage of discovery to the roots of European garden art, which are over a thousand years old and Islamic.

"Platero y yo ... is the allegoric story of a friendship between Platero, a donkey, and the poet himself. While walking across the gentle Andalusian landscape the poet, together with his faithful friend, conjures up scenes from his youth. As the poet explores illusions and certainties, the donkey, through his wisdom, assists him in rediscovering his love for life"--Insert, p. 7

Text and photographs, many in color, evoke the culture and atmosphere of Moorish Spain.

The saga of a family trying to survive the Spanish Inquisition. They are the Cozars, a line which begins with the marriage of a Moorish general and a Jewish woman who breeds horses. Eventually they are forced to convert.

"From 711 to 1492, large parts of today's Spain and Portugal were ruled by Muslims, and this territory was known as al-Andalus. Al-Andalus ceased to exist as a place in 1492, but its memories and legacies have survived in many cultural forms and have animated a diverse array of cultural and political projects throughout today's world. Taking up this wide-ranging story, On Earth or in Poems explores the uses and meanings of al-Andalus in contemporary...

"Through exhaustive research and painstaking readings in a wide range of anthologies of Andalusian folk culture and collections of popular verse, author C. Brian Morris reveals how Lorca transformed and veiled real people and real places in his poetry and drama. Exploring subjects ranging from medieval ballads to flower and plant lore, he further investigates the relationship between Lorca and the writings of other Andalusian-born authors, as well...

Roger Collins, a leading historian, investigates a time in Spanish history known for its multi-religious society - when Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in apparent harmony - revealing a fuller, more complex picture of this fascinating period.