Read Geraldine Heng.
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Enlightenment thinkers idealized Muslims, Chinese, and so-called Primitive peoples. 19th c. racist thinkers despised them for that, accused them of believing in "Noble Savage" -- a concept invented as a slur. See Per Ellingson's Myth of the Noble Savage (2001).
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But you yourself don’t seem to have read the pertinent recent medievalist scholarship: e.g., Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, and Lynn Ramey, Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages.
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The Scholastics believed in Christian Supremacy, not White Supremacy. But even the Christian Scholastics had no problem with reading and "learning" from non-Christians e.g. see Aquinas' references to the Muslim Avicenna and the pagans Aristotle and Plato
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