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Title
When the Moors ruled in Europe [(DVD) videorecording] / producer, Rowan Deacon ; director, Timothy Copestake ; Wildfire Television ; Channel Four Television.
Edition
Widescreen format (16:9).
Publication Info.
Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, [date of publication not identified]
Camera, Colin Clarke ; editor, Allen Charlton ; music, Will Goodchild.
Note
Originally produced for television in 2005.
"How Islamic civilization tamed western Europe."--Container.
Special feature: Bettany Hughes bio.
Summary
"Examines a long-buried chapter of European history: the rise and fall of Islamic culture in what is now Spain and Portugal... See how Moorish advances in mathematics, astronomy, art, and agriculture helped propel the West out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance. What emerges is a richly detailed portrait of a sensuous, inquisitive, and remarkably progressive Islamic culture in Christian Europe" -- Container.