Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity - Kaplan, M Lindsay
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M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the medieval Christian concept of Jewish servitude. Developed through exegetical readings of Biblical figures in canon law, this discourse produces a racial status of hereditary inferiority that justifies the subordination not only of Jews, but of Muslims and Africans as well.

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M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the medieval Christian concept of Jewish servitude. Developed through exegetical readings of Biblical figures in canon law, this discourse produces a racial status of hereditary inferiority that justifies the subordination not only of Jews, but of Muslims and Africans as well.
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M. Lindsay Kaplan is Professor of English at Georgetown University where she teaches courses on representations of race and religion in early modern drama. She authored The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England, numerous essays on The Merchant of Venice and produced an edition of the play in the Bedford/St. Martin's Texts and Contexts series.