CONGRESS CANCELED Reimagining "the Middle Ages"
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"The Middle Ages" are created and maintained by those who imagine them today, lending urgency to the project of narrating a global medieval that resists the field's racist and nationalist myths. Given a need for new imaginaries: What prospects of medievalism arise when medieval sources are freed from their nineteenth-century creation myths? How do medieval depictions of cross-cultural encounter provoke new imaginaries? How might medievalists ethically incorporate premodern Indigenous and Pacific Rim cultural artifacts to imagine beyond, rather than replicate, settler-colonial and imperialist mode(l)s? What can medieval sources offer, imaginatively encountered in the public sphere or classroom, to new audiences? Miranda Wilcox
CONGRESS CANCELED Reimagining "the Middle Ages"
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"The Middle Ages" are created and maintained by those who imagine them today, lending urgency to the project of narrating a global medieval that resists the field's racist and nationalist myths. Given a need for new imaginaries: What prospects of medievalism arise when medieval sources are freed from their nineteenth-century creation myths? How do medieval depictions of cross-cultural encounter provoke new imaginaries? How might medievalists ethically incorporate premodern Indigenous and Pacific Rim cultural artifacts to imagine beyond, rather than replicate, settler-colonial and imperialist mode(l)s? What can medieval sources offer, imaginatively encountered in the public sphere or classroom, to new audiences? Miranda Wilcox