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Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)
by Geraldine Heng • Ryan Szpiech • Andrew Reeves • Katherine Wilson • Helen Young • Nicholas L. Paul • Maggie Williams • William Diebold • W. Mark Ormrod • J. Patrick • Lauren Mancia • Sandy Bardsley • Adam Bishop • Marian Bleeke • Will Cerbone • Fred Donner • Sarah Guérin • Stephennie Mulder • Pamela Patton • Magda Teter • Elizabeth Tyler • David Wacks • Cord WhitakerWhose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back int... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking (The Middle Ages Series)
In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white—or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the rhetorical and theological moves through which bla... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020