NOV. 6:  EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN

The Frontier between Islam and Christendom (fortress of Loarre in the Pyrenees, tenth century)

Crown of the seventh-century Visigothic king Recceswinth, found in a treasure-hoard buried near Toledo at the time of the Muslim invasion:

The Great Mosque of Cordoba:

The Umayyad Court in Cordoba:  an ivory done in late Roman style, depicting Abd al-Malik

The Conversion Curve (from Richard Bulliet, Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period).  Represents an estimate of percentage of indigenous population in Spain who converted to Islam at various stages.

The true inheritors of classical civilization:  an Arabic manuscript of Galen

Christian Spain:  Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela