Black Legacies
Subtitle: Race and the European Middle Ages
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: Sep 02, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780813060071
Description: Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. 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. Using historical, literary, and artistic sources, Lynn Ramey shows that twelfth- and thirteenth-century discourse was preoccupied with skin color and the coding of black as "evil" and white as "good." Ramey demonstrates that fears of miscegenation show up in all medie.
Notes: Source title: Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages