Black Legacies: Race And The European Middle Ages

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. 9780813060071 0813060079 0 BOOK Black people NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DYVGngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Lynn Tarte Ramey
• | Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• | Publication Date: Sep 02, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0813060079
• | ISBN-13: 9780813060071