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Language: en
Pages: 116
Pages: 116
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-01 - Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
The King of Tars, an early Middle English romance (ca. 1330 or earlier), emphasizes ideas about race, gender, and religion. A short poem, its purpose is to cele
Language: en
Pages: 132
Pages: 132
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: C. Winter
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-25 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white—or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christia
Language: en
Pages: 209
Pages: 209
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: DS Brewer
The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts. The essays in this volume take a representative selection o
Language: en
Pages: 263
Pages: 263
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature