Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages

by Lynn T. Ramey

Book Overview

Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe's Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race. As early as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, society was already preoccupied with skin color. Using historical, literary, and artistic sources, Black Legacies explores the multitude of ways the coding of black as "evil"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813060079
• ISBN13: 9780813060071
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"