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Black Legacies
Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe’s Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race. Using historical, literary, and artistic sources, Lynn Ramey shows that twelfth- and thirteenth-century discourse was preoccupied with skin color and the coding of black as “evil” and white as “good.” Ramey demonstrates that fears of miscegenation show up in all medieval European societies. She pinpoints these same ideas in the rhetoric of later centuries. Mapmakers and travel writers of the colonial era used medieval lore of “monstrous peoples” to question the humanity of indigenous New World populations, and medieval arguments about humanness were employed to justify the slave trade. Ramey even analyzes how race is explored in films set in medieval Europe, revealing an enduring fascination with the Middle Ages as a touchstone for processing and coping with racial conflict in the West today.
Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom
Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom offers practical suggestions for educators looking to incorporate ludic media, ranging from novels to video games and from poems to board games, into their curricula. Across the globe, video games and interactive media have already been granted their own departments at numerous larger institutions and will increasingly fall under the purview of language and literature departments at smaller schools. This volume considers fundamental ways in which literature can be construed as a game and the benefits of such an approach. The contributors outline pedagogical strategies for integrating the study of video games with the study of literature and consider the intersections of identity and ideology as they relate to literature and ludology. They also address the benefits (and liabilities) of making the process of learning itself a game, an approach that is quickly gaining currency and increasing interest. Every chapter is grounded in theory but focuses on practical applications to develop students' critical thinking skills and intercultural competence through both digital and analog gameful approaches.
Because of Him
Lynn Ramey grew up in Texas, a state known for Christian values, high school football, and charmingly confident women. This is Lynn's life story-from her earliest days as a danceschool student to her present-day experiences of running her own award-winning Dance-N-Drill in Tyler, Texas. From competing in a cheerleading tryout with a broken arm, to choosing her husband, to following God's direction in building her own facility for the dance studio she owns and manages, Lynn's partner has been God. Lynn's successful business impacts her community and the lives of countless young women who have been her students. Through the eyes and pen of family friend Mark Vogl, you will glimpse the intimacy between Lynn and her Creator and the many ways God has influenced and directed her career and her life.
An Introduction to Jean Bodel
Bringing the work of a highly influentialmedieval French writer to English-speaking audiences for the first time Thisbook explores the life and works of Jean Bodel, an influential author who livedin twelfth-century Arras, France. A versatile poet, playwright, and epic writerwho established new genres such as fabliauxand the mystery play, Bodel remains relatively unknown to Anglophone audiences.Lynn Rameyoffers translations and summaries of works never published before in Englishwhile delving into Bodel's historical and cultural context. Aftera brief introduction to the poet, Ramey highlights the stimulating andcosmopolitan environment of Arras, considering the influence of the Crusadesand so...
Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature
This book explores the historical and imaginary representation of the Saracen, or Muslim, in French writings from 1100 to 1500.
The Apple of His Eye
The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was also a peaceful side to his encounter with the Muslim world, one that has received little attention until now. This splendid book shines new light on the king’s program to induce Muslims—the “apple of his eye”—to voluntarily convert to Christianity and resettle in France. It recovers a forgotten but important episode in the history of the Crusades while providing a rare window into the fraught experiences of the converts themselves...
Teaching the Global Middle Ages
While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new habits of thinking and develop a multilayered, critical sense of the past. The essays in this volume reach across disciplinary lines to bring insights from music, theater, religion, ecology, museums, and the history of disease into the literature classroom. The contributors provide guidance on texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, Sunjata, Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels, and the Malay Annals and on topics such as hotels, maps, and camels. They propose syllabus recommendations, present numerous digital resources, and offer engaging class activities and discussion questions. Ultimately, they provide tools that will help students evaluate popular representations of the Middle Ages and engage with the dynamics of past, present, and future world relationships.
The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance
This new Companion introduces the most important medieval vernacular literary genre in Britain and continental Europe.
Through A Classical Eye
As students and scholars of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Dante know, late medieval writers were influenced greatly by the work of peers that crossed historical, national, cultural, linguistic boundaries. Through a Classical Eye contains first-rate essays that demonstrate a range of strategies for undertaking transcultural and transhistorical studies of the late medieval period, and examines medieval literature and culture where English, Italian, and Latin materials overlap. Written in honour of the groundbreaking contributions that Winthrop Wetherbee made to this growing area of study, the volume's contributors advance his legacy and add to the burgeoning interest in setting medieval literary studies into wide intellectual and historical horizons. Divided into three illuminating sections on Medieval Latin authorship, Italy and the world, and England and beyond, and including a personal reminiscence of Wetherbee by the noted novelist Robert Morgan, Through a Classical Eye is an outstanding collection that provides key insights into medieval literature and culture.
Field Work
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
