Transcription of Race and Racism in the European Middle Ages
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Race and Racism in the European Middle ages Geraldine Heng, University of Texas at Austin Initial Q: Two Soldiers Leading Two Moors before a King (detail), about 1290 1310, unknown illuminator and Michael Lupi de andiu, scribe. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment, 14 3/8 9 7/16 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XIV 6, fol. 244. Digital image courtesy of the Getty s Open Content Program For generations, race studies scholars historians, literary critics, social scientists believed that race and its pernicious spawn, Racism , were modern-day phenomena only.
freedom of Jewish subjects, till in 1275, the Statute of Jewry created residential enclaves—the beginnings of the ghetto—by forbidding Jews from living among Christians. By 1290, parliamentary law drove Jews from England altogether, in their first permanent expulsion from a European country.
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