Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity

by Lindsay Kaplan and M. Lindsay Kaplan

In Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity, M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the Christian concept of Jewish hereditary inferiority. Imagined as a figural slavery, this idea anticipates modern racial ideologies in creating a status of permanent, inherent subordination. Unlike other studies of early forms of racism, this book places theological discourses at the center of its analysis. It traces an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190678240
• ISBN13: 9780190678241
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"