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Medieval Studies (Yes, Medieval Studies) Is Actively At The Heart Of Debates Over White Supremacy

ISSUES Posted: May 5, 2019 9:30 am

The fault lies in contemporary politics, of course, but also in the origins of the discipline: “In Europe, academic study of the Middle Ages developed in tandem with a romantic nationalism that rooted the nation-state in an idealized past populated by Anglo-Saxons and other supposedly distinct ‘races.’ In the United States, universities, cultural institutions and wealthy elites drew on Gothic architecture, heraldry and other medieval trappings to ground American identity in a noble (and implicitly white) European history. So did Southern slaveholders and the Ku Klux Klan.” – The New York Times

ISSUES Published: 05.05.19, sj

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