Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950–1250 – Medicine, Power and Religion Weeda

Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250Medicine, Power and Religion\nAuthor(s): Claire Weeda\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: York Medieval Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: York Medieval Press\nISBN-13: 9781914049019, 978-1914049019\nSynopsis\nAn investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.\n\nStudents in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other's military skills. Men producing ethnography in monasteries and at court drafted derogatory descriptions of peoples dwelling in territories under colonisation, questioning their work ethic, social organisation, religious devotion and humanness. Monks listed and ruminated on the alleged traits of Jews, Saracens, Greeks, Saxons and Britons and their acceptance or rejection of Christianity.\nIn this radical new approach to representations of na.