This book is a study of how ideas drawn from the English Middle Ages have been used to preserve and withhold freedom in the modern world. Broad in scope, it draws on canonical and ephemeral texts, including chronicles, memoirs, novels, political pamphlets, archival material, and works of history by scholars, colonizers, abolitionists, and Lost Cause apologists. Using three generations of a single family to frame its analysis, it reveals an intellectual genealogy that moves from medieval England to modern Africa, the Caribbean, the plantations of the US, and back again, to the academic disciplines of medieval studies and the very fabric of England’s medieval heritage. It argues that England’s medieval past has been a source of tenacious bonds—of family, freedom, slavery, nation, and race—and suggests that better understanding how those bonds were formed and resisted will enable full analysis of their legacy.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2025
Copyrightjahr
2025
ISBN-Print
978-1-80270-051-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-80270-370-2
ePub ISBN
9781802702118
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Arc Medievalist
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
220
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Contents Kein Zugriff
List of Illustrations Kein Zugriff
Preface Kein Zugriff
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 22
Chapter 1. “Useful Liberty” Kein Zugriff Seiten 23 - 54
Chapter 2. “Confined to Complexion” Kein Zugriff Seiten 55 - 86
Chapter 3. Temporal Bonds Kein Zugriff Seiten 87 - 120
Chapter 4. White Possessions and the “Negro Yoke” Kein Zugriff Seiten 121 - 164
