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Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages
Lynn T. Ramey
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Description for Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages
Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages, 16 black & white images. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; DSBB; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe's 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 ... Read more
Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe's 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813062075
SKU
V9780813062075
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About Lynn T. Ramey
Lynn T. Ramey is associate professor of French at Vanderbilt University, USA. She is the author of Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature: Imagination and Cultural Interaction in the French Middle Ages and coeditor of Race, Class, and Gender in ""Medieval"" Cinema.
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