Shipping:
US$ 2.64
Within U.S.A.
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 45519924-n
Book Description PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # FW-9781914049187
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9781914049187
Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG. Seller Inventory # 9781914049187
Book Description Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion 1.1. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9781914049187
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # TEM9AQ4ENC
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard1914049187
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover1914049187
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Buy for Great customer experience. Seller Inventory # GoldenDragon1914049187
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 their work ethic, social organisation, religious devotion and humanness. 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 property claims, flaunt military strength and assert moral and cultural ascendance over others. The gendered images of ethnicity in circulation reflect a negotiation over self-representations of discipline, rationality and strength, juxtaposed with the alleged chaos and weakness of racialised others. Interpreting nationhood through a religious lens, monks and schoolmen explained it as scientifically informed by environmental medicine, an ancient theory that held that location and climate influenced the physical and mental traits of peoples. Drawing on lists of ethnic character traits, school textbooks, medical treatises, proverbs, poetry and chronicles, this book shows that ethnic stereotypes served as rhetorical tools of power, crafting relationships within communities and towards others. An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781914049187