Oh, I know you're aware! Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you haven't been in the conversation. It's all part of the same bigger convo, isn't it? And it's tricky to navigate these kinds of criticisms.
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It's a slightly different angle, but I also like what
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Julie does a nice job of showing the value of using what might be perceived as "anachronism" in medieval studies for critical purposes.
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Thanks so much,
@b_hawk!@AdmiralHip, I'm always on the hunt for great discussions of "anachronism" in medievalist scholarship. A few sources: Kuefler's recent reconsideration of Boswell's *Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality* is herehttps://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/123/4/1246/5114678 …1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes -
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Some classic essays: Louise Fradenburg, “‘So That We May Speak of Them’: Enjoying the Middle Ages,” New Literary History 28 (1997): 205-230. + Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero, Preface and Introduction from Premodern Sexualities (1996), vii-xxiv.
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David Aers, “A Whisper in the Ear of Early Modernists; or, Reflections on Literary Critics Writing the ‘History of the Subject’,” in Culture and History, 1350-1600: Essays on English Communities, Identities and Writing (1992), pp. 177-202.
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The Preface and 1st chapter of Heng's INVENTION OF FACE is very good. I know people have critiques of D. Nirenberg, but I think this essay is very useful on scholarly terminology:
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David Nirenberg, “Was There Race before Modernity? The Example of “Jewish” Blood in Late Medieval Spain”, in Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today (University of Chicago Press, 2014), pp. 169–190.
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Also, the magnificent Ania Loomba, “Race and the Possibilities of Comparative Critique,” in New Literary History 40 (2009): 501-522. Sometimes critiques of historicism are what's needed: Paul Strohm, “Historicity without Historicism?” postmedieval 1.3 (Dec 2010): 380–391.
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Anyway, I'm excited to find other good sources to read! There's so much to think about. Good luck with your project!
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Thank you very much!
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