Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780190678241
Subjects: Racism; Christianity and other religions, judaism; Race relations, religious aspects, christianity; Slavery; Christianity and antisemitism; Christianity and other religions, islam; Church history, middle ages, 600-1500
Description: "M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the medieval Christian concept of Jewish servitude. Developed through exegetical readings of Biblical figures in canon law, this discourse produces a racial status of hereditary inferiority that justifies the subordination not only of Jews, but of Muslims and Africans as well"--