by Herbert Le Porrier · Bizâncio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725300367
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«O Médico de Córdova» is the historical novel by Herbert Le Porrier, published by Bizâncio in paperback (288 pages, in Portuguese).
The work reconstructs the life of Moses Maimonides, a twelfth-century Jewish physician and philosopher, from his native Córdoba, where Arabs, Christians and Jews coexisted, to the exile imposed by the Almohad invasion. On his long journey across the Mediterranean he trains alongside Averroes and ends up in Cairo, as physician and friend of Sultan Saladin.
Originally published in French as «Le Médecin de Cordoue» (1974), this Portuguese edition appeared in 2010.
For readers of historical fiction with an interest in medieval thought, Maimonides and the coexistence of cultures in the Iberian peninsula.
