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UNINA9910463687703321 |
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Autore |
Ramey Lynn T. |
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Black legacies : race and the European Middle Ages / / Lynn T. Ramey |
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Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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0-8130-5047-2 |
0-8130-5504-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (191 p.) |
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Black people - Europe - History |
Intercultural communication - Europe - History - To 1500 |
Social history - Medieval, 500-1500 |
Civilization, Medieval - African influences |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Cover""; ""Black Legacies""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Remaking the Middle Ages""; ""2. Medieval Race?""; ""3. Biblical Race""; ""4. Medieval Miscegenation and the Literary Imagination""; ""5. Mapping the Monstrous: Humanness in the Age of Discovery""; ""6. Conclusions: Medieval Race and the “Golden Age�""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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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 |
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UNINA9910779116403321 |
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The Saga of the Volsungs : The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] |
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©1990 |
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1-280-99555-6 |
9786613767165 |
0-520-95151-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION -- THE SAGA OF THE VOLSUNGS -- NOTES -- EDDIC POEMS USED BY THE SAGA AUTHOR -- GLOSSARY |
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The Saga of the Volsungs is an Icelandic epic of special interest to admirers of Richard Wagner, who drew heavily upon this Norse source in writing his Ring Cycle and a primary source for writers of fantasy such as J. R. R. Tolkien and romantics such as William Morris.A trove of traditional lore, it tells of love, jealousy, vengeance, war, and the mythic deeds of the dragonslayer, Sigurd the Volsung.Byock's comprehensive introduction explores the history, legends, and myths contained in the saga and traces the development of a narrative that reaches back to the period of the great folk migrations in Europe when the Roman Empire collapsed. |
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