In Black and White: Racial Prejudices in the European Middle Ages
I uploaded a new version of this article on my Academia page. You can view it https://www.academia.edu/40219335/In_Black_and_White_Racial_Prejudices_in_the_European_Middle_Ages You can also read the previous chapters, The Trefoil of the World and Jerusalem on European Mind Maps. See https://independent.academia.edu/BaizermanMichael "In Black and White" is open for discussions for 2 weeks from now. If you would like to comment later, you can do it either here, on my blog or my site. Here is the abstract: Intolerance to nonwhites harks back to the Early Middle Ages; it takes root in a new faith, the alive and kicking Christianity which spreads across the known world. The advocates of the novel ideology strive to defend it against ubiquitous paganism. They make up a pseudo-biological race theory that adopted the principles of Eurocentrism and the superiority of the west. This teaching, which we call here the “racial fiction”, associates blackness with sin. Black peop...