Posted on 08/16/2017 9:40:14 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
‘The Unbearable Whiteness of Medieval Studies’
A growing concern among Medieval Studies scholars is that the field is too dominated by white, male scholars who appreciate its link to Christian values and the fact that it’s been somewhat resistant to identity politics changes seen in other humanities departments.
The issue has been compounded by the concern among Medieval Studies scholars that white supremacists and the alt-right have co-opted crusade themes in memes to push for violence against Muslims and people of color.
Currently some scholars are planning a “Crusades and Alt Right” symposium this October to discuss the issue, an effort led in part by Virginia Tech medieval studies Professor Matthew Gabriele, who has argued the crusades have been misunderstood and misused throughout history to advance xenophobic nationalism.
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Sorry, the muzzies are too busy blowing up antiquities.
While they're certainly in favor of it, it's not the muslims who are tearing down Confederate statues. It's their leftist buddies.
Yes, by muslims and lefties.
Same same. Totalitarianism by any other name would smell as rotten.
Google is on it too.
Google “ american inventors “
Getting racial "diversity" is harder when a lot of programs are going to require proficiency in Latin (and sometimes in Greek, Anglo-Saxon, Old French, or some other difficult language), and when a lot of black students are not interested in European history (and the amount we know about medieval Africa is vastly less than about medieval Europe).
I don't mean to say that black students are unable to learn Latin--of course many can and do--but if they are aiming at a "quick fix" to improve the statistics, any hard requirements are going to be obstacles.
Wasn’t the richest person in world history a medieval African king?
It would probably be considered Islamophobic to teach that Muslims made a killing in the slave trade of Black Africans
It would be doubly out of sorts because it sometimes seems that many midievalists are outright Islamophiles.
Of course the history of the settlers who came here and built the America, later launched in the Revolution, is an important part of our heritage. Of course it should be studied as part of the experience that led to the formulation of our purpose, and honored as part of the ongoing struggle of the respective peoples involved.
But let it also be noted that the writer appears to make some significant errors, if she would really understand the racial aspect. While Islam is multi-racial, as is Christianity; the Moslems--such as Saladin--who fought the Crusaders--and who jousted with Richard the Lionheart in the Holy Land, were Caucasians. It is, of course, sheer lunacy for White Americans to flee from studying their own earlier history, in any event; but to make the Crusades into some sort of race war, rather than what it actually was, is a bit of a stretch.
Studies, topics, history, deemed "non diverse" or "easily misused" will be removed.
I guess every idiot college professor and university administrator in the country want’s to get in on the BAD WHITEY BANDWAGON while they can.
I have an idea, every white student in the country quits college, their parents stop paying tuition, all the WHITE donors stop giving money to their alma matters, all government tax dollars that go to support research with white students or teachers is suspended.
If people of COLOR are so important and wise and wealthy, they can provide complete support to all institutions of higher education.
WONDER HOW LONG THEY WOULD LAST.
The amount we know about medieval African is sufficient.
They were born into a tribe, they murdered and ate everybody in the other tribe.
In turn they were murdered and eaten by the another tribe.
They are still using the same system today.
Mansa Musa was an extremely wealthy West African king in the 1300s. I don’t know if he was the richest person ever. He is shown on a Catalan (Spanish) map from about 1375, depicting seated on a throne with a crown—depicted like a European king would be except shown as black. He is shown holding a very large gold nugget. The Field Museum in Chicago has a reproduction of the map on a wall.
And a lot of those paper sessions at Kalamazoo are dedicated to “Queer” topics: homosexuality, sodomy, gay, lesbian - whatever the catch word might be.
One of the most celebrated (not necessarily in a good way) paper sessions (or maybe it was the specific paper title since it was published as an article later) at Kalamazoo years ago was called “Jousting without a Lance” which was about lesbian “homoeroticism”. We laughed about that title FOR YEARS AND YEARS.
“Wasn’t the richest person in world history a medieval African king?”
With Bitcoin? Actually, I think you mean Musa I, Mansa of Mali: ascended to the throne of the wealthy Mali Empire in 1312. Not much was known about the emperors outside of Western Africa, but Musa’s religious Hajj in 1324 would bring great attention to the wealth and extravagance of his lands. The retinue that Musa traveled with apparently included 60,000 men, in addition to 12,000 slaves, 500 of which marched before the Mansa dressed in silken robes and golden staffs. There were 80 camels in the train that are said to have carried anywhere from 50 to 300 pounds each of gold dust. This entire entourage alone when evaluated in terms of today would indicate a net worth of more than US$400 billion. https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/25-richest-people-lived-inflation-adjusted/
They seem to be cutting back on the number of sessions--in previous years they had over 600. There was an essay in The Weekly Standard many years ago written by someone who had attended the medieval conference in Kalamazoo which did a good job of conveying the experience.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks ForYourChildren.
“anywhere from 50 to 300 pounds each of gold dust. This entire entourage alone when evaluated in terms of today would indicate a net worth of more than US$400 billion”
And with that ‘headstart’,that Muzzy King and all his subjects have ———Today—— an Income of $1.25 per day,
Yepper, Muzzys progress is ‘wunerful’.....( Oh yeh..What’s that city so famous roun there? Oh yeh..TIMBUKTU? Think the king or that city were the engine of wealth creation ??
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