This project examines medieval vernacular hagiography as a resource for understanding emerging racial discourses in England (1100-1450). Building on the work of Geraldine Heng, Cord Whitaker, M. Lindsay Kaplan, and others who affirm religion as the primary site for the construction of medieval race, “Shades of Sanctity” investigates hagiography as a crucial location for racial …
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White colonial power limits what can be known about indigenous peoples represented in the Mexican (Spanish) archive. The documents and manuscripts that survive from the colonial period in Mexico (1519-1821) tend to represent indigenous peoples as passive subjects, and it is important to consider whether they would have recognized themselves in such descriptions. As Stephanie …
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Mythology stitches fascinating patterns into the tapestry of human experience. Every culture and generation has its own set of myths—sacred, secular, fictional, factual, about humankind, animals, nature—and despite how transcultural, translingual, and transtemporal these myths are, they have a universal appeal. It would be a Sisyphean task to try to explain the many functions for …
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