This artwork depicts a quiet street in medieval Cordoba. Lamplight, paved stone, the architecture of a city that was, by most accounts, the most sophisticated in Europe.
At its tenth-century peak, Cordoba had a population of around five hundred thousand people. It had street lighting, oil lamps mounted on poles along major roads, while most European cities were unlit after dark. It had seventy libraries, hundreds of public baths, and a sewage system. The Great Mosque was one of the largest buildings in the world. Scholars from across Europe came to study there, including Gerbert of Aurillac, who became Pope Sylvester II.
This is not mythology. This is what the sources, including contemporary European sources, record. The street in this print is a document.
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