Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion Weeda Claire
Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion Weeda Claire An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.Students in…
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Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion Weeda Claire
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. Men producing ethnography in monasteries and at court drafted derogatory descriptions of peoples dwelling in territories under colonisation, questioning their work ethic, social organisation, religious devotion and humanness. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other's military skills.
Monks listed and ruminated on the alleged traits of Jews, Saracens, Greeks, Saxons and Britons and their acceptance or rejection of Christianity.In this radical new approach to representations of nationhood in medieval western Europe, the author argues that ethnic stereotypes were constructed and wielded rhetorically to justify