Ornament of the world.(Landscape)

From: Manila Bulletin | Date: December 21, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Gemma Cruz Araneta

THAT is the provocative title of an engaging book I can hardly put down. Very briefly, it is about how Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a "culture of tolerance," which is what we lack these days and which seems to prove that instead of advancing towards civilized harmony, we have definitely retrogressed far beyond the Dark Ages. According to Maria Rosa Menocal, author of "Ornament of the World,'' the Middle Ages, or Medieval period, was and still is described as an epoch of darkness and ignorance. It was only during the Rennaissance, a word ...

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