An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.
Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other’s military skills. Men producing ethnography in monasteries and at court drafted derogatory descriptions of peoples dwelling in territories under colonisation, questioning ...
Table des matières
Introduction
Part I
1. Cataloguing Ethnic Virtues and Vices
2. The Naturalisation of Ethnicity and Environmental Thought
3. Domesticated Spaces, Peoples and Power...
A propos de l’auteur
CLAIRE WEEDA is a cultural historian at Leiden University.
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