Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem
Kathy Lavezzo
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Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem

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Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism Humanists have long insisted on a chasm separating modernity and the Middle Ages. In Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem, Kathy Lavezzo demonstrates how the temporal divide scholars typically accept is a fiction that has shaped racial discourse over a longue durée. The hard line drawn between "then" and "now" is of a piece with the line separating whiteness from humans deemed irrevocably other. Thus, Lavezzo advocates a "bad" - that is, depressing and disturbing, even nauseat...