Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity

ISBN-13: 9780190678241 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

Lindsay Kaplan

Opis

M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the medieval Christian concept of Jewish servitude. Developed through exegetical readings of Biblical figures in canon law, this discourse produces a racial status of hereditary inferiority that justifies the subordination not only of Jews, but of Muslims and Africans as well.

Recenzje

M. Lindsay Kaplan's account is spot on. It details how supersessionist understandings of the relation between Christanity and Judaism are linked to figural readings of the Bible and to the Church doctrine of inherited Jewish inferiority that modeled and flowed into so-called 'modern' racism. It will help us better understand the links between anti-semitism and other forms of racism at a time when such understandings are desperately needed indeed.

O autorze

M. Lindsay Kaplan is Professor of English at Georgetown University where she teaches courses on representations of race and religion in early modern drama. She authored The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England, numerous essays on The Merchant of Venice and produced an edition of the play in the Bedford/St. Martin's Texts and Contexts series.