Arabic Spain : sidelights on her history and art . «.>.r ARABIC SPAIN: SIDE-LIGHTS ON HER HISTORY AND ART CHAPTER I CHRISTIANITY UNDER ISLAM If some of the ecclesiastical chroniclers and those who have followed them were to be believed, it would appear that the position of the Christian Church and of its members during the Moslem occupation of Spain was one long oppression and martyrdom. As a matter of fact, until the invasion of the Almohades, when there may have been a certain amount of persecution, the Christians on the whole enjoyed the fullest measure of toleration, of which the only c
Arabic Spain : sidelights on her history and art . «.>.r ARABIC SPAIN: SIDE-LIGHTS ON HER HISTORY AND ART CHAPTER I CHRISTIANITY UNDER ISLAM If some of the ecclesiastical chroniclers and those who have followed them were to be believed, it would appear that the position of the Christian Church and of its members during the Moslem occupation of Spain was one long oppression and martyrdom. As a matter of fact, until the invasion of the Almohades, when there may have been a certain amount of persecution, the Christians on the whole enjoyed the fullest measure of toleration, of which the only condition ; v2,M^* seems to have been that they should pay their tribute and ^ refrain from insulting the rehgion of their conquerors. A glance at the volumes of Es-pana Sagrada shows beyonddoubt that the Christian hierarchy. Christian worship, andChristian monasticism, continued practically without in-terference for something hke two hundred years after theMoslem conquest; after that the record is comparativelyscanty, but even in later years iso
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