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RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST THE ARC OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH HATEFUL MEDIEVAL MONUMENTS? “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell.IS "RACE" REAL?
THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE WEAPON THAT DIDN’T EXIST A military flail is a medieval weapon consisting of a short handle attached to a chain, at the end of which is a metal ball. This is not to be confused with a two-handed variant, often also called a flail, which derives from the threshing implement of the same name. Varieties of the one-handed version have multiple chains or spiked heads. THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST THE ARC OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH HATEFUL MEDIEVAL MONUMENTS? “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell.IS "RACE" REAL?
THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE WEAPON THAT DIDN’T EXIST A military flail is a medieval weapon consisting of a short handle attached to a chain, at the end of which is a metal ball. This is not to be confused with a two-handed variant, often also called a flail, which derives from the threshing implement of the same name. Varieties of the one-handed version have multiple chains or spiked heads. THE ARC OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES This vision of the Middle Ages in general, and of Jewish fate in particular, is the legacy of Enlightenment thinkers’ backlash against medieval European civilization. Like all such backlashes, this one is a combination of truth and fiction, and an oversimplification of a complex subject. This is the case for generalizations aboutmedieval
LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALCAST: EPISODE 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | More Click here for a transcript of this episode. Introducing a brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist!The Public Medievalcast is going to be all the content you know and love from us here at The Public Medievalist in a new format: stories that connect the medieval and the modern, and that delve into the ways in which the medieval THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST STAFF Editor-in-Chief. Paul B. Sturtevant is a public historian and medievalist, and an expert in the way that history is presented to the public. He is the author of two books: The Devil’s Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past (with Amy S. Kaufman) was released in 2020; The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination: Memory,Film, and
ANTI-SEMITISM IS OLDER THAN YOU THINK Anti-Semitism Is Older Than You Think. The sack of Jerusalem in CE 70, as depicted on the Arch of Titus in Rome. Part XXI in our ongoing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages. You can find the rest of the special series here. Holocaust. UNCOVERING THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE The BBC is revising history to suit its own anti-White narrative. S o claimed a commenter at the right-wing website Biased BBC. The object of their ire: the 2017 three-part BBC drama-documentary of the Norman conquest of England, 1066: A Year to Conquer England.The reason for this critique is that, in this series, Robert de Beaumont, one of William the Conqueror’s main aides, was played by GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FLAT EARTH In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical since at least the 6th century BCE. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was likely the first to propose the idea, though WERE THERE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES? For example, one demographer of medieval Europe estimated that there were 19 million people living in France and the Low Countries (now the Netherlands and Belgium) in 1340. If approximately 0.6% of adults are trans, and 1/2000 of adults are intersex, that gives us a figure of about 114,000 trans people, and 9,500 intersex people living in 14 GAME OF THRONES' RACISM PROBLEM The idea that Game of Thrones and George R. R. Martin’s novels depict “ the real Middle Ages ” is often used to try to deflect criticism for the lack of racial diversity (and high levels of violence, especially against women ). But as we have been exploring throughout this series, the idea that the “real Middle Ages” wasan all-white
WAS SEXUAL ABUSE NORMAL IN THE MIDDLE AGES? Yes, it was considered a valid part of “traditional marriage” during much of the Middle Ages for a man to acquire a bride by kidnapping an eligible woman and forcing her to marry him. And since, as discussed above, a marriage is not fully binding until sex, there is the implication that rape was necessarily part of this. THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. GRIMDARK MEDIEVALISM IN A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE As I wrote back in November, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has been celebrated—by Martin himself as well as by some reviewers, fans, and even a few scholars—as a more-historically authentic take on medievalesque fantasy. But, it simply isn’t. And more than that, believing that it is can lead to some awful conclusions about the medieval past and the present. “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. GRIMDARK MEDIEVALISM IN A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE As I wrote back in November, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has been celebrated—by Martin himself as well as by some reviewers, fans, and even a few scholars—as a more-historically authentic take on medievalesque fantasy. But, it simply isn’t. And more than that, believing that it is can lead to some awful conclusions about the medieval past and the present. “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALCAST: EPISODE 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | More Click here for a transcript of this episode. Introducing a brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist!The Public Medievalcast is going to be all the content you know and love from us here at The Public Medievalist in a new format: stories that connect the medieval and the modern, and that delve into the ways in which the medieval GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FLAT EARTH In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical since at least the 6th century BCE. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was likely the first to propose the idea, though THE ARC OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES This vision of the Middle Ages in general, and of Jewish fate in particular, is the legacy of Enlightenment thinkers’ backlash against medieval European civilization. Like all such backlashes, this one is a combination of truth and fiction, and an oversimplification of a complex subject. This is the case for generalizations aboutmedieval
WERE THE MIDDLE AGES REALLY “THE GOOD PLACE”? Because of that assumption, The Good Place’s way of looking at the Middle Ages is refreshing, in a way. The idea that the Middle Ages were “the Dark Ages” (in full or in part) is an idea that has deserved the dumpster for decades. We here at The Public Medievalist have been doing our part to get rid of it, but I am not at allconfident
MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
UNCOVERING THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE The BBC is revising history to suit its own anti-White narrative. S o claimed a commenter at the right-wing website Biased BBC. The object of their ire: the 2017 three-part BBC drama-documentary of the Norman conquest of England, 1066: A Year to Conquer England.The reason for this critique is that, in this series, Robert de Beaumont, one of William the Conqueror’s main aides, was played by THE VIRGIN MARY: BEAUTIFUL AND BLACK? The Virgin Mary: Beautiful and Black? Part XXXVIII in our ongoing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages, by Sarah Randles. You can find the rest of the special series here . Medieval Christians did not care what race the Virgin Mary was. T hat comes from the blog of Professor Rachel Fulton Brown, medievalist at the University ofChicago.
WERE THERE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES? For example, one demographer of medieval Europe estimated that there were 19 million people living in France and the Low Countries (now the Netherlands and Belgium) in 1340. If approximately 0.6% of adults are trans, and 1/2000 of adults are intersex, that gives us a figure of about 114,000 trans people, and 9,500 intersex people living in 14 IF "CHIVALRY" ISN'T DEAD, LET'S KILL IT OFF. On June 15th, 2011 the Daily Telegraph published five articles on the same topic: “If chivalry is dead,” one by Lucy Jones reads, “blame it on the selfish feminists”. Bullshit. These were released as a response to a report by the Society for the Psychology of Women, a division of the American Psychological Association.Their report detailed ways that sexism can be harmful to women, even THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. GRIMDARK MEDIEVALISM IN A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE As I wrote back in November, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has been celebrated—by Martin himself as well as by some reviewers, fans, and even a few scholars—as a more-historically authentic take on medievalesque fantasy. But, it simply isn’t. And more than that, believing that it is can lead to some awful conclusions about the medieval past and the present. “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. GRIMDARK MEDIEVALISM IN A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE As I wrote back in November, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has been celebrated—by Martin himself as well as by some reviewers, fans, and even a few scholars—as a more-historically authentic take on medievalesque fantasy. But, it simply isn’t. And more than that, believing that it is can lead to some awful conclusions about the medieval past and the present. “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALCAST: EPISODE 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | More Click here for a transcript of this episode. Introducing a brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist!The Public Medievalcast is going to be all the content you know and love from us here at The Public Medievalist in a new format: stories that connect the medieval and the modern, and that delve into the ways in which the medieval GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FLAT EARTH In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical since at least the 6th century BCE. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was likely the first to propose the idea, though THE ARC OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES This vision of the Middle Ages in general, and of Jewish fate in particular, is the legacy of Enlightenment thinkers’ backlash against medieval European civilization. Like all such backlashes, this one is a combination of truth and fiction, and an oversimplification of a complex subject. This is the case for generalizations aboutmedieval
WERE THE MIDDLE AGES REALLY “THE GOOD PLACE”? Because of that assumption, The Good Place’s way of looking at the Middle Ages is refreshing, in a way. The idea that the Middle Ages were “the Dark Ages” (in full or in part) is an idea that has deserved the dumpster for decades. We here at The Public Medievalist have been doing our part to get rid of it, but I am not at allconfident
MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
UNCOVERING THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE The BBC is revising history to suit its own anti-White narrative. S o claimed a commenter at the right-wing website Biased BBC. The object of their ire: the 2017 three-part BBC drama-documentary of the Norman conquest of England, 1066: A Year to Conquer England.The reason for this critique is that, in this series, Robert de Beaumont, one of William the Conqueror’s main aides, was played by THE VIRGIN MARY: BEAUTIFUL AND BLACK? The Virgin Mary: Beautiful and Black? Part XXXVIII in our ongoing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages, by Sarah Randles. You can find the rest of the special series here . Medieval Christians did not care what race the Virgin Mary was. T hat comes from the blog of Professor Rachel Fulton Brown, medievalist at the University ofChicago.
WERE THERE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES? For example, one demographer of medieval Europe estimated that there were 19 million people living in France and the Low Countries (now the Netherlands and Belgium) in 1340. If approximately 0.6% of adults are trans, and 1/2000 of adults are intersex, that gives us a figure of about 114,000 trans people, and 9,500 intersex people living in 14 IF "CHIVALRY" ISN'T DEAD, LET'S KILL IT OFF. On June 15th, 2011 the Daily Telegraph published five articles on the same topic: “If chivalry is dead,” one by Lucy Jones reads, “blame it on the selfish feminists”. Bullshit. These were released as a response to a report by the Society for the Psychology of Women, a division of the American Psychological Association.Their report detailed ways that sexism can be harmful to women, even THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. GRIMDARK MEDIEVALISM IN A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE As I wrote back in November, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has been celebrated—by Martin himself as well as by some reviewers, fans, and even a few scholars—as a more-historically authentic take on medievalesque fantasy. But, it simply isn’t. And more than that, believing that it is can lead to some awful conclusions about the medieval past and the present. “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. GRIMDARK MEDIEVALISM IN A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE As I wrote back in November, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has been celebrated—by Martin himself as well as by some reviewers, fans, and even a few scholars—as a more-historically authentic take on medievalesque fantasy. But, it simply isn’t. And more than that, believing that it is can lead to some awful conclusions about the medieval past and the present. “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALCAST: EPISODE 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | More Click here for a transcript of this episode. Introducing a brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist!The Public Medievalcast is going to be all the content you know and love from us here at The Public Medievalist in a new format: stories that connect the medieval and the modern, and that delve into the ways in which the medieval GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. THE ARC OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES This vision of the Middle Ages in general, and of Jewish fate in particular, is the legacy of Enlightenment thinkers’ backlash against medieval European civilization. Like all such backlashes, this one is a combination of truth and fiction, and an oversimplification of a complex subject. This is the case for generalizations aboutmedieval
GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FLAT EARTH In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical since at least the 6th century BCE. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was likely the first to propose the idea, though MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
UNCOVERING THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE The BBC is revising history to suit its own anti-White narrative. S o claimed a commenter at the right-wing website Biased BBC. The object of their ire: the 2017 three-part BBC drama-documentary of the Norman conquest of England, 1066: A Year to Conquer England.The reason for this critique is that, in this series, Robert de Beaumont, one of William the Conqueror’s main aides, was played by THE POET OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: IBN HAMDIS Each tiny niche in the ceiling is populated by hunting princes, singing bards and, believe it or not, wine-drinking revelers. For wine is the flavor and essence of this refined Mediterranean world, as Ibn Hamdis knew very well: A youth who has studied wine until he WERE THE MIDDLE AGES REALLY “THE GOOD PLACE”? Because of that assumption, The Good Place’s way of looking at the Middle Ages is refreshing, in a way. The idea that the Middle Ages were “the Dark Ages” (in full or in part) is an idea that has deserved the dumpster for decades. We here at The Public Medievalist have been doing our part to get rid of it, but I am not at allconfident
THE VIRGIN MARY: BEAUTIFUL AND BLACK? The Virgin Mary: Beautiful and Black? Part XXXVIII in our ongoing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages, by Sarah Randles. You can find the rest of the special series here . Medieval Christians did not care what race the Virgin Mary was. T hat comes from the blog of Professor Rachel Fulton Brown, medievalist at the University ofChicago.
WERE THERE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES? For example, one demographer of medieval Europe estimated that there were 19 million people living in France and the Low Countries (now the Netherlands and Belgium) in 1340. If approximately 0.6% of adults are trans, and 1/2000 of adults are intersex, that gives us a figure of about 114,000 trans people, and 9,500 intersex people living in 14 THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALCAST: EPISODE 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | More Click here for a transcript of this episode. Introducing a brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist!The Public Medievalcast is going to be all the content you know and love from us here at The Public Medievalist in a new format: stories that connect the medieval and the modern, and that delve into the ways in which the medieval RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. THE ARC OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE WEAPON THAT DIDN’T EXIST A military flail is a medieval weapon consisting of a short handle attached to a chain, at the end of which is a metal ball. This is not to be confused with a two-handed variant, often also called a flail, which derives from the threshing implement of the same name. Varieties of the one-handed version have multiple chains or spiked heads. “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALCAST: EPISODE 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | More Click here for a transcript of this episode. Introducing a brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist!The Public Medievalcast is going to be all the content you know and love from us here at The Public Medievalist in a new format: stories that connect the medieval and the modern, and that delve into the ways in which the medieval RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. THE ARC OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE WEAPON THAT DIDN’T EXIST A military flail is a medieval weapon consisting of a short handle attached to a chain, at the end of which is a metal ball. This is not to be confused with a two-handed variant, often also called a flail, which derives from the threshing implement of the same name. Varieties of the one-handed version have multiple chains or spiked heads. “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. THE ARC OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES This vision of the Middle Ages in general, and of Jewish fate in particular, is the legacy of Enlightenment thinkers’ backlash against medieval European civilization. Like all such backlashes, this one is a combination of truth and fiction, and an oversimplification of a complex subject. This is the case for generalizations aboutmedieval
LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
UNCOVERING THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE The BBC is revising history to suit its own anti-White narrative. S o claimed a commenter at the right-wing website Biased BBC. The object of their ire: the 2017 three-part BBC drama-documentary of the Norman conquest of England, 1066: A Year to Conquer England.The reason for this critique is that, in this series, Robert de Beaumont, one of William the Conqueror’s main aides, was played by “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. GAME OF THRONES' RACISM PROBLEM The idea that Game of Thrones and George R. R. Martin’s novels depict “ the real Middle Ages ” is often used to try to deflect criticism for the lack of racial diversity (and high levels of violence, especially against women ). But as we have been exploring throughout this series, the idea that the “real Middle Ages” wasan all-white
IS "RACE" REAL?
Is “Race” Real? by Paul B. Sturtevant on February 22, 2017. share. "The Races of Asia", from Nordisk Familjebok, vol.2. 1904. This is Part IV of The Public Medievalist’s continuing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages. Read the Introduction to the our series here, Part I, here, Part II here, and Part III here. The priorarticles in
WERE THERE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES? For example, one demographer of medieval Europe estimated that there were 19 million people living in France and the Low Countries (now the Netherlands and Belgium) in 1340. If approximately 0.6% of adults are trans, and 1/2000 of adults are intersex, that gives us a figure of about 114,000 trans people, and 9,500 intersex people living in 14 WAS SEXUAL ABUSE NORMAL IN THE MIDDLE AGES? Yes, it was considered a valid part of “traditional marriage” during much of the Middle Ages for a man to acquire a bride by kidnapping an eligible woman and forcing her to marry him. And since, as discussed above, a marriage is not fully binding until sex, there is the implication that rape was necessarily part of this. IF "CHIVALRY" ISN'T DEAD, LET'S KILL IT OFF. On June 15th, 2011 the Daily Telegraph published five articles on the same topic: “If chivalry is dead,” one by Lucy Jones reads, “blame it on the selfish feminists”. Bullshit. These were released as a response to a report by the Society for the Psychology of Women, a division of the American Psychological Association.Their report detailed ways that sexism can be harmful to women, even THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. GRIMDARK MEDIEVALISM IN A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE As I wrote back in November, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has been celebrated—by Martin himself as well as by some reviewers, fans, and even a few scholars—as a more-historically authentic take on medievalesque fantasy. But, it simply isn’t. And more than that, believing that it is can lead to some awful conclusions about the medieval past and the present. “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. GRIMDARK MEDIEVALISM IN A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE As I wrote back in November, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has been celebrated—by Martin himself as well as by some reviewers, fans, and even a few scholars—as a more-historically authentic take on medievalesque fantasy. But, it simply isn’t. And more than that, believing that it is can lead to some awful conclusions about the medieval past and the present. “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALCAST: EPISODE 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | More Click here for a transcript of this episode. Introducing a brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist!The Public Medievalcast is going to be all the content you know and love from us here at The Public Medievalist in a new format: stories that connect the medieval and the modern, and that delve into the ways in which the medieval GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FLAT EARTH In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical since at least the 6th century BCE. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was likely the first to propose the idea, though YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT MEDIEVAL WARFARE, JON SNOW Spoiler Warning: This article contains spoilers for Game of Thrones, Season 8 Episode 3: “The Long Night.” In this week’s episode of Game of Thrones, “The Long Night,” viewers were treated to one of the most intense medievalesque battle sequences since the battle of Helm’s Deep in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.The battle was plenty bloody (though surprisingly few main MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? Dr. Dark Age’s previous article in this series, A Brief History of a Terrible Idea: The “Dark Enlightenment”, briefly touched upon a tricky question: were medieval people racist? For those familiar with some of the more horrible parts of the Middle Ages, such as the mass murders and expulsions of the Jews, the Crusades, or the wars in the Baltics, the answer might seem obvious: of course WERE THE MIDDLE AGES REALLY “THE GOOD PLACE”? Because of that assumption, The Good Place’s way of looking at the Middle Ages is refreshing, in a way. The idea that the Middle Ages were “the Dark Ages” (in full or in part) is an idea that has deserved the dumpster for decades. We here at The Public Medievalist have been doing our part to get rid of it, but I am not at allconfident
GAME OF THRONES' RACISM PROBLEM The idea that Game of Thrones and George R. R. Martin’s novels depict “ the real Middle Ages ” is often used to try to deflect criticism for the lack of racial diversity (and high levels of violence, especially against women ). But as we have been exploring throughout this series, the idea that the “real Middle Ages” wasan all-white
THE VIRGIN MARY: BEAUTIFUL AND BLACK? The Virgin Mary: Beautiful and Black? Part XXXVIII in our ongoing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages, by Sarah Randles. You can find the rest of the special series here . Medieval Christians did not care what race the Virgin Mary was. T hat comes from the blog of Professor Rachel Fulton Brown, medievalist at the University ofChicago.
WERE THERE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES? For example, one demographer of medieval Europe estimated that there were 19 million people living in France and the Low Countries (now the Netherlands and Belgium) in 1340. If approximately 0.6% of adults are trans, and 1/2000 of adults are intersex, that gives us a figure of about 114,000 trans people, and 9,500 intersex people living in 14 IF "CHIVALRY" ISN'T DEAD, LET'S KILL IT OFF. On June 15th, 2011 the Daily Telegraph published five articles on the same topic: “If chivalry is dead,” one by Lucy Jones reads, “blame it on the selfish feminists”. Bullshit. These were released as a response to a report by the Society for the Psychology of Women, a division of the American Psychological Association.Their report detailed ways that sexism can be harmful to women, even THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. GRIMDARK MEDIEVALISM IN A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE As I wrote back in November, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has been celebrated—by Martin himself as well as by some reviewers, fans, and even a few scholars—as a more-historically authentic take on medievalesque fantasy. But, it simply isn’t. And more than that, believing that it is can lead to some awful conclusions about the medieval past and the present. “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST IN MEMORIAM: SHARON KAY PENMAN (1945-2021) Sharon Penman’s work stands as one of the great pillars of medieval historical fiction writing. Penman wrote her first novel, The Sunne in Splendour, as her entry into the centuries-long dispute over the character of King Richard III of England.Meticulously researched and written over a period of 20 years while Penman was working as a tax attorney, it was published in 1982 to positive reviews. GRIMDARK MEDIEVALISM IN A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE As I wrote back in November, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has been celebrated—by Martin himself as well as by some reviewers, fans, and even a few scholars—as a more-historically authentic take on medievalesque fantasy. But, it simply isn’t. And more than that, believing that it is can lead to some awful conclusions about the medieval past and the present. “ANTI-SEMITISM” BEFORE “SEMITES”: THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF Extending “anti-Semitism” back to the Middle Ages helps short-circuit arguments that modern anti-Semitism emerges without any causal or ideological precedent. It shows, in other words, anti-Semitism’s history. Doing so also helps avoid overly rigid divisions between religious anti-Judaism and racial anti-Semitism. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALCAST: EPISODE 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | More Click here for a transcript of this episode. Introducing a brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist!The Public Medievalcast is going to be all the content you know and love from us here at The Public Medievalist in a new format: stories that connect the medieval and the modern, and that delve into the ways in which the medieval GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FLAT EARTH In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical since at least the 6th century BCE. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was likely the first to propose the idea, though YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT MEDIEVAL WARFARE, JON SNOW Spoiler Warning: This article contains spoilers for Game of Thrones, Season 8 Episode 3: “The Long Night.” In this week’s episode of Game of Thrones, “The Long Night,” viewers were treated to one of the most intense medievalesque battle sequences since the battle of Helm’s Deep in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.The battle was plenty bloody (though surprisingly few main MY FAIR LADY? HOW WE THINK ABOUT MEDIEVAL WOMEN How We Think About Medieval Women. John William Waterhouse, "The Lady of Shalott" (1888), now at the Tate Britain. This is part 2 of The Public Medievalist‘s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Yvonne Seale. You can find the rest of our series here. “Lady” is a simple word. But it can be used to mean very differentthings.
WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? Dr. Dark Age’s previous article in this series, A Brief History of a Terrible Idea: The “Dark Enlightenment”, briefly touched upon a tricky question: were medieval people racist? For those familiar with some of the more horrible parts of the Middle Ages, such as the mass murders and expulsions of the Jews, the Crusades, or the wars in the Baltics, the answer might seem obvious: of course WERE THE MIDDLE AGES REALLY “THE GOOD PLACE”? Because of that assumption, The Good Place’s way of looking at the Middle Ages is refreshing, in a way. The idea that the Middle Ages were “the Dark Ages” (in full or in part) is an idea that has deserved the dumpster for decades. We here at The Public Medievalist have been doing our part to get rid of it, but I am not at allconfident
GAME OF THRONES' RACISM PROBLEM The idea that Game of Thrones and George R. R. Martin’s novels depict “ the real Middle Ages ” is often used to try to deflect criticism for the lack of racial diversity (and high levels of violence, especially against women ). But as we have been exploring throughout this series, the idea that the “real Middle Ages” wasan all-white
THE VIRGIN MARY: BEAUTIFUL AND BLACK? The Virgin Mary: Beautiful and Black? Part XXXVIII in our ongoing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages, by Sarah Randles. You can find the rest of the special series here . Medieval Christians did not care what race the Virgin Mary was. T hat comes from the blog of Professor Rachel Fulton Brown, medievalist at the University ofChicago.
WERE THERE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES? For example, one demographer of medieval Europe estimated that there were 19 million people living in France and the Low Countries (now the Netherlands and Belgium) in 1340. If approximately 0.6% of adults are trans, and 1/2000 of adults are intersex, that gives us a figure of about 114,000 trans people, and 9,500 intersex people living in 14 IF "CHIVALRY" ISN'T DEAD, LET'S KILL IT OFF. On June 15th, 2011 the Daily Telegraph published five articles on the same topic: “If chivalry is dead,” one by Lucy Jones reads, “blame it on the selfish feminists”. Bullshit. These were released as a response to a report by the Society for the Psychology of Women, a division of the American Psychological Association.Their report detailed ways that sexism can be harmful to women, even THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALCAST: EPISODE 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | More Click here for a transcript of this episode. Introducing a brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist!The Public Medievalcast is going to be all the content you know and love from us here at The Public Medievalist in a new format: stories that connect the medieval and the modern, and that delve into the ways in which the medieval THE ARC OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE POET OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: IBN HAMDIS GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FLAT EARTH In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical since at least the 6th century BCE. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was likely the first to propose the idea, though THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE WEAPON THAT DIDN’T EXIST A military flail is a medieval weapon consisting of a short handle attached to a chain, at the end of which is a metal ball. This is not to be confused with a two-handed variant, often also called a flail, which derives from the threshing implement of the same name. Varieties of the one-handed version have multiple chains or spiked heads. IF "CHIVALRY" ISN'T DEAD, LET'S KILL IT OFF. On June 15th, 2011 the Daily Telegraph published five articles on the same topic: “If chivalry is dead,” one by Lucy Jones reads, “blame it on the selfish feminists”. Bullshit. These were released as a response to a report by the Society for the Psychology of Women, a division of the American Psychological Association.Their report detailed ways that sexism can be harmful to women, even THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALCAST: EPISODE 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | More Click here for a transcript of this episode. Introducing a brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist!The Public Medievalcast is going to be all the content you know and love from us here at The Public Medievalist in a new format: stories that connect the medieval and the modern, and that delve into the ways in which the medieval THE ARC OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE POET OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: IBN HAMDIS GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FLAT EARTH In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical since at least the 6th century BCE. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was likely the first to propose the idea, though THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE WEAPON THAT DIDN’T EXIST A military flail is a medieval weapon consisting of a short handle attached to a chain, at the end of which is a metal ball. This is not to be confused with a two-handed variant, often also called a flail, which derives from the threshing implement of the same name. Varieties of the one-handed version have multiple chains or spiked heads. IF "CHIVALRY" ISN'T DEAD, LET'S KILL IT OFF. On June 15th, 2011 the Daily Telegraph published five articles on the same topic: “If chivalry is dead,” one by Lucy Jones reads, “blame it on the selfish feminists”. Bullshit. These were released as a response to a report by the Society for the Psychology of Women, a division of the American Psychological Association.Their report detailed ways that sexism can be harmful to women, even THE NOTORIOUS GARSENDA OF PROVENCE A seal used by Garsenda’s mother, confusingly (for historians at least) also named Garsenda. Garsenda was born into nobility around CE 1200 in Provence, France. She was the daughter and granddaughter of two strong-willed women who shared her name. Her mother, Garsenda, Countess of Provence and Forcalquier, was a troubadour in her ownright.
GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FLAT EARTH In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical since at least the 6th century BCE. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was likely the first to propose the idea, though GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. ANTI-SEMITISM IS OLDER THAN YOU THINK Anti-Semitism Is Older Than You Think. The sack of Jerusalem in CE 70, as depicted on the Arch of Titus in Rome. Part XXI in our ongoing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages. You can find the rest of the special series here. Holocaust. THE POET OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: IBN HAMDIS Each tiny niche in the ceiling is populated by hunting princes, singing bards and, believe it or not, wine-drinking revelers. For wine is the flavor and essence of this refined Mediterranean world, as Ibn Hamdis knew very well: A youth who has studied wine until he UNCOVERING THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE The BBC is revising history to suit its own anti-White narrative. S o claimed a commenter at the right-wing website Biased BBC. The object of their ire: the 2017 three-part BBC drama-documentary of the Norman conquest of England, 1066: A Year to Conquer England.The reason for this critique is that, in this series, Robert de Beaumont, one of William the Conqueror’s main aides, was played byWHO BUILT AFRICA?
Who Built Africa? by Paul B. Sturtevant on April 6, 2017. share. A door in the ruined city of Gedi, in modern-day Kenya. This is Part XVI of The Public Medievalist’s continuing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages, continuing our interview with Chapurukha Kusimba, Professor of Anthropology at American University. THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE WEAPON THAT DIDN’T EXIST A military flail is a medieval weapon consisting of a short handle attached to a chain, at the end of which is a metal ball. This is not to be confused with a two-handed variant, often also called a flail, which derives from the threshing implement of the same name. Varieties of the one-handed version have multiple chains or spiked heads. GAME OF THRONES' RACISM PROBLEM The idea that Game of Thrones and George R. R. Martin’s novels depict “ the real Middle Ages ” is often used to try to deflect criticism for the lack of racial diversity (and high levels of violence, especially against women ). But as we have been exploring throughout this series, the idea that the “real Middle Ages” wasan all-white
WERE THERE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES? For example, one demographer of medieval Europe estimated that there were 19 million people living in France and the Low Countries (now the Netherlands and Belgium) in 1340. If approximately 0.6% of adults are trans, and 1/2000 of adults are intersex, that gives us a figure of about 114,000 trans people, and 9,500 intersex people living in 14 THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALCAST: EPISODE 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | More Click here for a transcript of this episode. Introducing a brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist!The Public Medievalcast is going to be all the content you know and love from us here at The Public Medievalist in a new format: stories that connect the medieval and the modern, and that delve into the ways in which the medieval THE ARC OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE POET OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: IBN HAMDIS GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FLAT EARTH In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical since at least the 6th century BCE. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was likely the first to propose the idea, though THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE WEAPON THAT DIDN’T EXIST A military flail is a medieval weapon consisting of a short handle attached to a chain, at the end of which is a metal ball. This is not to be confused with a two-handed variant, often also called a flail, which derives from the threshing implement of the same name. Varieties of the one-handed version have multiple chains or spiked heads. IF "CHIVALRY" ISN'T DEAD, LET'S KILL IT OFF. On June 15th, 2011 the Daily Telegraph published five articles on the same topic: “If chivalry is dead,” one by Lucy Jones reads, “blame it on the selfish feminists”. Bullshit. These were released as a response to a report by the Society for the Psychology of Women, a division of the American Psychological Association.Their report detailed ways that sexism can be harmful to women, even THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALIST In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021. share. We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you'remissing. read more.
RACE, RACISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of race lie at the heart of our understanding of the medieval world; racists—even within the ranks of the academic medievalist community—have, for far too long, warped our understanding of the past. THE PUBLIC MEDIEVALCAST: EPISODE 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | More Click here for a transcript of this episode. Introducing a brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist!The Public Medievalcast is going to be all the content you know and love from us here at The Public Medievalist in a new format: stories that connect the medieval and the modern, and that delve into the ways in which the medieval THE ARC OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES LITERARY WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE Literary Women in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Diane Watt. Detail: a miniature of the Erithrean Sibyl, writing. British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23. https://bit.ly/2UxXKFc. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell. WERE MEDIEVAL PEOPLE RACIST? THE POET OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: IBN HAMDIS GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FLAT EARTH In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical since at least the 6th century BCE. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was likely the first to propose the idea, though THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE WEAPON THAT DIDN’T EXIST A military flail is a medieval weapon consisting of a short handle attached to a chain, at the end of which is a metal ball. This is not to be confused with a two-handed variant, often also called a flail, which derives from the threshing implement of the same name. Varieties of the one-handed version have multiple chains or spiked heads. IF "CHIVALRY" ISN'T DEAD, LET'S KILL IT OFF. On June 15th, 2011 the Daily Telegraph published five articles on the same topic: “If chivalry is dead,” one by Lucy Jones reads, “blame it on the selfish feminists”. Bullshit. These were released as a response to a report by the Society for the Psychology of Women, a division of the American Psychological Association.Their report detailed ways that sexism can be harmful to women, even THE NOTORIOUS GARSENDA OF PROVENCE A seal used by Garsenda’s mother, confusingly (for historians at least) also named Garsenda. Garsenda was born into nobility around CE 1200 in Provence, France. She was the daughter and granddaughter of two strong-willed women who shared her name. Her mother, Garsenda, Countess of Provence and Forcalquier, was a troubadour in her ownright.
GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FLAT EARTH In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical since at least the 6th century BCE. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was likely the first to propose the idea, though GENDER, SEXISM, AND THE MIDDLE AGES In October of 2018, The Public Medievalist launched its second special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages. If the past few years has illustrated nothing else, it has shown in stark terms how rampant sexism is in societies across the world. When it comes to gender, the popular imagination of the Middle Ages is a toxic fairy tale. ANTI-SEMITISM IS OLDER THAN YOU THINK Anti-Semitism Is Older Than You Think. The sack of Jerusalem in CE 70, as depicted on the Arch of Titus in Rome. Part XXI in our ongoing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages. You can find the rest of the special series here. Holocaust. THE POET OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: IBN HAMDIS Each tiny niche in the ceiling is populated by hunting princes, singing bards and, believe it or not, wine-drinking revelers. For wine is the flavor and essence of this refined Mediterranean world, as Ibn Hamdis knew very well: A youth who has studied wine until he UNCOVERING THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE The BBC is revising history to suit its own anti-White narrative. S o claimed a commenter at the right-wing website Biased BBC. The object of their ire: the 2017 three-part BBC drama-documentary of the Norman conquest of England, 1066: A Year to Conquer England.The reason for this critique is that, in this series, Robert de Beaumont, one of William the Conqueror’s main aides, was played byWHO BUILT AFRICA?
Who Built Africa? by Paul B. Sturtevant on April 6, 2017. share. A door in the ruined city of Gedi, in modern-day Kenya. This is Part XVI of The Public Medievalist’s continuing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages, continuing our interview with Chapurukha Kusimba, Professor of Anthropology at American University. THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE WEAPON THAT DIDN’T EXIST A military flail is a medieval weapon consisting of a short handle attached to a chain, at the end of which is a metal ball. This is not to be confused with a two-handed variant, often also called a flail, which derives from the threshing implement of the same name. Varieties of the one-handed version have multiple chains or spiked heads. GAME OF THRONES' RACISM PROBLEM The idea that Game of Thrones and George R. R. Martin’s novels depict “ the real Middle Ages ” is often used to try to deflect criticism for the lack of racial diversity (and high levels of violence, especially against women ). But as we have been exploring throughout this series, the idea that the “real Middle Ages” wasan all-white
WERE THERE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES? For example, one demographer of medieval Europe estimated that there were 19 million people living in France and the Low Countries (now the Netherlands and Belgium) in 1340. If approximately 0.6% of adults are trans, and 1/2000 of adults are intersex, that gives us a figure of about 114,000 trans people, and 9,500 intersex people living in 14* Special Series__
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Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH HATEFUL MEDIEVAL MONUMENTS? by Katherine Clark Walteron
November 25, 2020
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HOW TO TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT OLD-SCHOOL DISNEY by Kavita Mudan Finnon
November 12, 2020
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Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST by Christina Warmbrunnon
September 24, 2020
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Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages HOW JOAN OF ARC INSPIRED WOMEN’S SUFFRAGISTSby Yvonne Seale
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Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages THE SOFT POWER OF TOUGH MEDIEVAL WOMENby Marta Cobb
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Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH HATEFUL MEDIEVAL MONUMENTS? by Katherine Clark Walteron
November 25, 2020
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Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH HATEFUL MEDIEVAL MONUMENTS? by Katherine Clark Walteron
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If you know what to look for, you can find monuments to medieval hate in medieval churches and town squares across Europe. The question then is: what should be done with them?read more
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HOW TO TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT OLD-SCHOOL DISNEY by Kavita Mudan Finnon
November 12, 2020
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A lot of Disney films haven't aged well. How can you help your kids understand a film like Sleeping Beauty, without just throwing it inthe trash?
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Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages DEAR TOLKIEN FANS: BLACK PEOPLE EXIST by Christina Warmbrunnon
September 24, 2020
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Tolkien fan communities can be hostile places for Black fans. Just because Tolkien's work has white supremacy embedded in it does not mean that fans should embrace or replicate it.read more
Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages HOW JOAN OF ARC INSPIRED WOMEN’S SUFFRAGISTSby Yvonne Seale
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Ever since her death at the stake in 1431, Joan of Arc has become a powerful symbol. Women fighting for the expansion of the right to vote took her as a potent icon of their movement.read more
Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages THE SOFT POWER OF TOUGH MEDIEVAL WOMENby Marta Cobb
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Well-behaved medieval women seldom made history. While medieval women were officially barred from positions of power in the Church, several found ways to make their voices heard nevertheless.read more
Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages FASCISM AND CHIVALRY IN THE CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS OF RICHMONDby Larissa Tracy
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The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer has ignited a global groundswell of protests decrying systemic police brutality against Black Americans. The Black Lives Matter marches and rallies have forced a reevaluation regarding Confederate statues throughout the United States.read more
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WERE THE MIDDLE AGES REALLY “THE GOOD PLACE”? by Paul B. Sturtevanton
January 10, 2020
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NBC's "The Good Place" says that nobody has gone to heaven in 521 years. That makes the last truly good person medieval! But were the Middle Ages really so good?read more
Multicultural Middle Ages THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS, AND WAS, PROFOUNDLY MULTICULTURAL by Jocelyn Wogan-Browneon
December 19, 2019
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White nationalists say "English people should speak only English!" Medievalists reply: "Since when?"read more
Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages HOW MUSEUMS HIDE WOMEN’S AND QUEER HISTORIES IN PLAIN SIGHTby Kit Heyam on
December 12, 2019
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When you walk through a museum, what aren't you seeing? Kit Heyam explores the hidden histories of women and queer people just below thesurface of the V&A.
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