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Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kathy LavezzoPublish date:11/4/2025Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9781531512408ISBN-10:1531512402UPC:9781531512408Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Medieval, Black Studies (Global)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.3206Product ID:SC4WRHZSCF

Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism

Humanists have long insisted on a chasm separating modernity and the Middle Ages. In Bad Medi-evalism and the Modernity Problem, Kathy Lavezzo demonstrates how the temporal divide scholars typically accept is a fiction that has shaped racial discourse over a longue durée. The hard line...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9781531512408ISBN-10:1531512402UPC:9781531512408Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Medieval, Black Studies (Global)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.3206Product ID:SC4WRHZSCF
Kathy Lavezzo is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534 and The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton and is the editor of Imagining a Medieval English Nation.
Publisher: Fordham University Press

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