The recent bib from @ISASaxonists and @erik_kaars is critical here too. Short sweet and to the point. These texts are essential for all medievalists, regardless of discipline https://medium.com/@mrambaranolm/race-101-for-early-medieval-studies-selected-readings-77be815f8d0f … 15/
-
Show this thread
-
This bib includes scholars all medieval art historians should be reading too - Like Du Bois, who wrote both on the Middle Ages and art, or Stuart Hall whose work on representation is essential. 16/
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
I'd also recommend using texts on mod/con issues of race and art. Pair them with something medieval, but for considering what images actually do when it comes to creating ideas about race, mod/con is the place to look. 17/
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Richard Dyer's intro to The Matter of Images is a succinct starting point for examining the effects that images and stereotypes have on shaping their audience's views of those depicted peoples in real life. 18/
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
Kirk Savage's Standing Soldiers Kneeling Slaves is a good introductory text to monuments, race, and power, a great comparison for thinking about medieval monumental sculpture. 19/
1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
Tina Campt's Image Matters is an amazing study on agency and identity-making in photography, as well as what an image can and can't do. Would recommend even though photography of course is not a medieval medium. 20/
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
These authors aren't medievalists, but their texts open up ways of thinking about the role of images within the history of racial formation that much medieval scholarship hasn't quite been able to do, yet. Keyword: yet! 21/
1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
In sum: start with the art historians to find your footing, but do not stop there. Stay reading, friends! And good luck with your Fall teaching. I hope you and your students stay healthy. /end.
2 replies 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @jackiemlombard
I never really point to it but “Ancrene Wisse and the Egerton Hours” is about race, Jewish difference, and the images in a 13th c. Book of Hours. (2017) Also Roland Bettancourt’s Upcoming Princeton UP on Byzantine Intersectionality is about race, gender, and sexuality.
2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @dorothyk98 @jackiemlombard
Though medievalists are really hyperfocalized on epidural race in ways that make no sense in relation to the current definitions we are discussing of race. Visually it can also be marked in other ways, clothing, hair, what ppl are eating etc. race making is sensorial.
2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
It’s most frustrating to have discussions about premodern critical race when medievalists still seem stuck in definitional wrangles where multiple recent pieces have already laid out the scene and the historiography.
-
-
Replying to @dorothyk98
I absolutley agree with all of this. The work is there, we need to read it! And I’m very much looking forward to Betancourt’s book as well. Hope you’re doing well, Dorothy.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.