What Our Fantasies About the European Middle Ages Say About Us

Re:What Our Fantasies About the European Middle Ages Say Abo... by RappingBoomer on Saturday August 20, 2022 @08:11AM (#32531434)

from the article... "There were people with many different racial backgrounds, religious backgrounds, all present … in Western Europe,” Grollemond pointed out. But in the centuries since, a narrow, whitewashed vision of the past has frequently been perpetuated in popular fiction and fantasy versions of the Middle Ages."

so it was about white racism, huh? that's a new one...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:What Our Fantasies About the European Middle Ages Say Abo... by arcbyte on Saturday August 20, 2022 @08:51AM (#32531686)

My exposure to contemporary academic historical studies has been a nightmare. It is woke city - which is just to say that if your work as a grad student doesn't touch on race or gender identity then you have no chance of a career. So it makes sense that for us living in this period of time, all of our "professional" history is going to have that "woke" perspective.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:What Our Fantasies About the European Middle Ages Say Abo... by drewcoo on Saturday August 20, 2022 @02:08PM (#32534003)

In the context of history . . . white as a race is a new one.

[ Parent | on HN ]