the subtext of this article is pretty interestinghttp://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2017/01/medieval-memes?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/the_far_right_s_new_fascination_with_the_middle_ages …
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alternative-alternative: both the right and left want to somewhat self-centeredly claim the medieval as "just like" us today
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maybe, but which tribe controls the humanities depts and gets written up adoringly by mainstream pubs for defending multiculti
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I have my own pet frameworks that differ from both but I think it is fair to call the right's view the counter-narrative
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It's certainly that—and being marshaled to very unsavory ends, imo. Another Q: whether any of this begets new, good scholarship.
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I mean the idea of the middle ages being "weaponized" by these sad losers is basically a joke, but
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The fact that the middle ages was less white than imagined by the alt-right is reflected in nearly 100 years of scholarship
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So it's hardly revisionist.
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not about futzing around with demographic numbers, I'm referring to the inability to imagine a past with alien worldviews
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lines like "the premodern contribution to multiculturalism" are whig view of history garbage
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Well it doesn't come from nowhere
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I mean the problem we have imo is that all of our modern conception follows on from the basically 18th c construction of race
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Like the romans didn't consider themselves multicultural but they certainly would be by today's standards.
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ya I remember that lol
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Is this dim motherfucker calling that retarded tumblr blogger an Art Historian?
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"medieval were progs because CHRISTINE DE PIZAN!"
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