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1 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed., The Postcolonial Middle Ages (New York: St. Martinâs, 2000); Thomas Hahn, ed., âRace and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages,â special issue, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31, no. 1 (2001); Geraldine Heng, Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003). 2 Robert Bartlett, âMedieval and Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity,â Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31 (2001): 42. On the different but related topic of the so-called monstrous races see the classic study by John Block Friedman, The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981). Modern Language Quarterly 65:3 (September 2004): 391â 421. © 2004 University of Washington. MLQ September 2004 mental inï¬uence,â ultimately placing the greatest importance on âthe cultural and social component of ethnic identityâ (45). For Bartlett, the idea of race in the medieval period would appear much closer to that of âethnic group,â a categorization that emphasizes linguistic, legal, political, and cultural afï¬nities more than somatic features as markers of racial difference. There are crucial distinctions between this type of notion of race and those that animate, for example,
Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History – Duke University Press
Published: Sep 1, 2004
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