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Against the grain of much contemporary scholarship within medieval studies, this work emphasizes the radical alterity and historical rupture that the Middle Ages represents in European history.
List of contents
List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: "A Different Slant"Chapter 1: (Un)Doing History: Epistemological Alterity and the Middle AgeI. Continuity and Alterity
II. Conceits of History
III. Alterity, Again
Not a Conclusion
Chapter 2: Rethinking RaceI. An Old Debate: Critiquing History of Ideas
II. Race: A Unit-Idea
III. Other Ways of Being in the World
Conclusion
Chapter 3: The Faceless PremodernI. Individuality: A Teleological History
II. Facing the Premodern
III. Identity and Emotion Without the Face
Conclusion
Conclusion: The Silence of the Past in the History of the PresentIndexBibliography
About the author
Vanita Seth is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include histories of race, postmodern and postcolonial theory, feminist theory, and early modern political thought. Seth is the author of
Europe's Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500-1900, 2010. She was a former co-editor of
Postcolonial Studies and is currently on its International Editorial Board.
Summary
Against the grain of much contemporary scholarship within medieval studies, this work emphasizes the radical alterity and historical rupture that the Middle Ages represents in European history.
