Up until the Moors occupation of Europe most of Europe was illterate, till the 1400s. The Moors are resposible for building these libraries and early learning centers. The Moorish Influence On Renaissance Europe. Normally the Renaissance is traced back to Florentine and Venetian Italy, and with good reason: Venetian trade with the Arabic world did indeed allow Classical learning to re-enter Europe through Italy. But studying the Spanish roots of the Renaissance allows us to ponder how Classical learning only declined in certain parts of Europe, that it continued to flourish in both the Byzantine and Arabic worlds, and that it was returned to Europe via al-Andalus – “Moorish Spain” – roughly 500 years before the Italian Renaissance. This semester we will mainly cover this topic via video (When the Moors Ruled In Europe) but our main concern is in realizing or remembering that while most of Europe stumbled through the Dark and Early Middle Ages, the Renaissance was already occurring in al- Andalus, or what we now call Spain, and throughout the entire Islamic Empire. webpages.uidaho.edu/engl257/Don%20Quixote/moorish_influence_on_renaiss.htm
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