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Fantasy vs. Reality

The Truth of the Vatican Secret Archives

by James Hill on October 20, 2022
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The Green Knight Shows the Dark Age After the ‘Glorious’ Conquest

by Sabina Rahman on September 14, 2021
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Enemies at the Gate: Political Medievalism, Russian Style

by Eugene Smelyansky on April 15, 2021
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Medieval Robots in Mega Man VI

by Geoffrey B. Elliott on April 1, 2021
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Improving Dungeons and Dragons: Racism and the “Barbarian”

by Paul B. Sturtevant on March 18, 2021
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Cupid at the Castle: Romance, Medievalism, and Race at Atlanta’s Rhodes Hall

by Richard Utz on April 4, 2017
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In Atlanta, you can get married in a beautiful, fairytale castle: Rhodes Hall. But the backdrop of all those wedding photos holds a complex, racist history. Part XV of our series on Race, Racism and…
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Recovering a “Lost” Medieval Africa: Interview with Chapurukha Kusimba, part I

by Paul B. Sturtevant on March 30, 2017
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During the Middle Ages, Africa wasn't in a "dark age"; it was linked to an emerging global world. Special interview with African Anthropologist Chapurukha Kusimba,…
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Feeling ‘British’

by Eric Weiskott on March 28, 2017
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What does "British" mean? Who gets to call themselves "British"? This conflict has roots leading back to King Arthur, Merlin, and some of the earliest…
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How Were Medieval People Racist?

by Amy S. Kaufman on March 23, 2017
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Monsters with no heads, grey aliens, and morphing babies can tell us a lot about medieval racism. Dr. Dark Age explains, in part XII of our ongoing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages.
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Where Do the “White Middle Ages” Come From?

by Helen Young on March 21, 2017
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We have explored the vile effects of the "whites-only" Middle Ages, but how did the Middle Ages get linked with racism? Helen Young explores in…
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The Poet of the Mediterranean: Ibn Hamdis

by Luca Asmonti on March 16, 2017
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Ibn Hamdis was one of the great poets of the Mediterranean: a Arab-Sicilian whose haunting, enchanting verses show the interconnectedness of the human experience.
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Finding Islamic Culture in a Christian Space

by Clare Vernon on March 14, 2017
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When Christians and Muslims often lived side-by-side, their cultures and religions sometimes blended into one another, even in their houses of worship. Dr. Clare Vernon explores one such instance, in part IX of our continuing…
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A Wonder of the Multicultural Medieval World: The Tabula Rogeriana

by Paul B. Sturtevant on March 9, 2017
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The greatest map possibly ever created was made by an Arab Muslim refugee working for a French-Norse king of Sicily on a giant silver disc…
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Where Were the Middle Ages?

by Marianne O'Doherty on March 7, 2017
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A whites-only view of the Middle Ages needs a Europe-only Middle Ages to exist. Let's pull that apart, shall we? Part VII of our continuing…
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