Atlas's Bones: The African Foundations of Europe - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226830308ISBN-10:226830306UPC:9780226830308Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, MedievalBook Topic:African StudiesSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCPGC6479K
Atlas's Bones: The African Foundations of Europe
A major new look at Africa's influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe. Virgil. Chaucer. Petrarch. These names resonate with many as cornerstones of European culture. Yet, in Atlas's Bones, D. Vance Smith reveals that much of what is claimed as European culture up to the Middle Ages--its great themes in literature, its sources in political...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226830308ISBN-10:226830306UPC:9780226830308Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, MedievalBook Topic:African StudiesSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCPGC6479K
D. Vance Smith is professor of English and former director of medieval studies at Princeton University. His many books include Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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