Although I’ve posted links from this series previously, I wanted to create a post demonstrating just how many resources are available at The Public Medievalist. This series of articles features various experts exploring just how much the use and misuse of how we perceive the medieval past affects our lives, worldviews, and ideologies. The offerings below include articles by experts on World History, Medieval Archaeology, African studies, Jewish Medieval Studies, professors of art and literature, Islamic Studies, and much more. Although I can certainly find points of disagreement within the articles, the sheer density of information and diversity of perspective in this series is a great way to engage with the complexity of the truths involved in the way race functions in our culture today, and the way medieval history is used and misused in relation to the way we see ourselves and others.
- Introduction: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages: Tearing Down the “Whites Only” Medieval World
by Paul B. Sturtevant- Part I: A Brief History of a Terrible Idea: The “Dark Enlightenment”
by Amy S. Kaufman- Part II: A Vile Love Affair: Right Wing Nationalism and the Middle Ages
by Andrew B. R. Elliott- Part III: “Race” in the Trenches: Anglo-Saxons, Ethnicity, and the Misuse of the Medieval Past
by James M. Harland- Part IV: Is “Race” Real?
by Paul B. Sturtevant- Part V: To Russia, With Love: Courting a New Crusade
by Amy S. Kaufman- Part VI: Were Medieval People Racist?
by Paul B. Sturtevant- Part VII: Where were the Middle Ages?
by Marianne O’Doherty- Part VIII: A Wonder of the Multicultural Medieval World: The Tabula Rogeriana
by Paul B. Sturtevant- Part IX: Finding Islamic Culture in a Christian Space
by Clare Vernon- Part X: The Poet of the Mediterranean: Ibn Hamdis
by Luca Asmonti- Part XI: Where Do the “White Middle Ages” Come From?
by Helen Young- Part XII: Miraculous Bleach and Giant Feet: Were Medieval People Racist? II
- Part XIII: Feeling ‘British’
by Eric Weiskott- Part XIV: Recovering a “Lost” Medieval Africa: Interview with Chapurukha Kusimba, part I
by Paul B. Sturtevant- Part XV: Cupid at the Castle: Romance, Medievalism, and Race at Atlanta’s Rhodes Hall
by Richard Utz- Part XVI: Who Built Africa?
by Paul B. Sturtevant- Part XVII: Uncovering the African Presence in Medieval Europe
by Adam Simmons- Part XVIII: The Mystery of Stephen the African
by Sihong Lin- Part XIX: “Pizzagate” and the Nocturnal Ritual Fantasy: Imaginary Cults, Fake News, and Real Violence
by Michael Barbezat- Part XX: East Africa: Five Million Years of History
by Paul B. Sturtevant- Introduction: Jews, Anti-Semitism and the Middle Ages
by Paul B. Sturtevant- Part XXI: Anti-Semitism Is Older Than You Think
by Amy S. Kaufman- Part XXII: A Tale of Two Europes: Jews in the Medieval World
by Amy S. Kaufman- Part XXIII: The Importance of Being Absent
by Richard Cole- Part XXIV: “Bad Hombres”: How to Hate Someone You’ve Never Met
by Richard Cole- Part XXV: “Anti-Semitism” Before “Semites”: The Risks and Rewards of Anachronism
by Matthew Chalmers- Part XXVI: Game of Thrones’ Racism Problem
by Helen Young- Part XXVII: The Sainted Toddler Who Sparked a Pogrom
by Bianca Lopez- Part XXIX: Leaving “Medieval” Charlottesville
by Paul B. Sturtevant- Part XXX: Perfect Victims: 1096 and 2017
by Jeremy DeAngelo- Part XXXI: Deggendorf, and the Long History of its Destructive Myth
by Richard Utz- Part XXXII: The Arc of Jewish Life in the Middle Ages
by Robert Chazan- Part XXXIII: The View from the Road: Were Medieval People Racist? III
by James Hill- Part XXXIV: The Birth of a National Disgrace: Medievalism and the KKK
by Amy S. Kaufman- Part XXXV: Race in A Song of Ice and Fire: Medievalism Posing as Authenticity
by Shiloh Carroll- Part XXXVI: Race: the Original Sin of the Fantasy Genre
by Paul B. Sturtevant- Part XXXVII: Were Medieval People Racist? IV: Race, Religion, and Travel
by James Hill- Part XXXVIII: The Virgin Mary: Beautiful and Black?
by Sarah Randles- Part XXXIX: Schrödinger’s Medievalisms
by Paul B. Sturtevant- Part XXXX: Race, Racism and the Middle Ages: Looking Back, Looking Forward
by Paul B. SturtevantI’d also mention that if this piques your interest, you might also want to know about their upcoming series for 2018: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages
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