Ramey Lynn T. Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages 9780813060071

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Автор: Ramey Lynn T.
Название: Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780813060071
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: Классическое, раннего, высокого и позднего средневековья до 1500 г.

История Европы

Средневековая история

Этнические исследования

ISBN-10: 0813060079
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 192
Вес: 0.40 кг.
Дата издания: 30.08.2014
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations, figures
Размер: 236 x 161 x 16
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval,European history,Medieval history,Ethnic studies
Подзаголовок: Race and the european middle ages
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: A provocative study of western racial attitudes. Ramey adds an important, likely controversial, and well-written scholarly challenge to the argument that racism in the West was the product of nineteenth-century science.--Hamilton Cravens, coeditor of Race and Science

The significance of this book extends beyond the medieval past. Black Legacies shows that behind myths of knights in shining armor and fair maidens lies a contested literary and cultural history of medievalism that troubles understandings of race from the nineteenth century to today.--Russ Castronovo, author of Beautiful Democracy

Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europes Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race. As early as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, society was already preoccupied with skin color. Using historical, literary, and artistic sources, Black Legacies explores the multitude of ways the coding of black as evil and white as good existed in medieval European societies.

Lynn Ramey demonstrates how mapmakers and travel writers of the colonial era used medieval lore of monstrous peoples to question the humanity of indigenous New World populations and how medieval arguments about humanness were employed to justify the slave trade. She also analyzes how race is portrayed in films set in medieval Europe, ultimately revealing an enduring fascination with the Middle Ages as a touchstone for processing and coping with racial conflict in the West today.

Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages, Ramey Lynn T.