(Un)Doing History

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: "A Different Slant"

Chapter 1: (Un)Doing History: Epistemological Alterity and the Middle Age

I. Continuity and Alterity

II. Conceits of History

III. Alterity, Again

Not a Conclusion

Chapter 2: Rethinking Race

I. 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 Premodern

I. 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 Present

Index

Bibliography