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UNINA9910822272203321 |
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Autore |
Ramey Lynn Tarte <1964-> |
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Titolo |
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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ISBN |
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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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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Black people - Europe - History |
Intercultural communication - Europe - History - To 1500 |
Social history - Medieval, 500-1500 |
Civilization, Medieval - African influences |
Europe Race relations |
Europe Ethnic relations |
Europa |
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Formato |
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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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