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Race, Periodicity, and the (Neo-) Middle Ages

Race, Periodicity, and the (Neo-) Middle Ages 1 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed., The Postcolonial Middle Ages (New York: St. Martin’s, 2000); Thomas Hahn, ed., “Race and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages,” 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, “Medieval and Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity,” 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): 391– 421. © 2004 University of Washington. MLQ September 2004 mental influence,” ultimately placing the greatest importance on “the cultural and social component of ethnic identity” (45). For Bartlett, the idea of race in the medieval period would appear much closer to that of “ethnic group,” a categorization that emphasizes linguistic, legal, political, and cultural affinities 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, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History Duke University Press

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Duke University Press
Copyright
Copyright 2004 by University of Washington
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0026-7929
eISSN
1527-1943
DOI
10.1215/00267929-65-3-391
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1 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed., The Postcolonial Middle Ages (New York: St. Martin’s, 2000); Thomas Hahn, ed., “Race and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages,” 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, “Medieval and Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity,” 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): 391– 421. © 2004 University of Washington. MLQ September 2004 mental influence,” ultimately placing the greatest importance on “the cultural and social component of ethnic identity” (45). For Bartlett, the idea of race in the medieval period would appear much closer to that of “ethnic group,” a categorization that emphasizes linguistic, legal, political, and cultural affinities 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,

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Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary HistoryDuke University Press

Published: Sep 1, 2004

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