Race and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages

This special issue brings together some of the most dynamic current scholarship addressing race and ethnicity in the medieval and early modern periods. The contents include: The Difference the Middle Ages Makes: Color and Race before the Modern World
by Thomas Hahn Medieval and Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity by Robert Bartlett Black Servant, Black Demon: Color Ideology in the Ashburnham Pentateuch by Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk Pagans are wrong and Christians are right: Alterity, Gender, and Nation in the Chanson de Roland by Sharon Kinoshita On Saracen Enjoyment: Some Fantasies of Race in Late Medieval France and England by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Medieval Travel Writing and the Question of Race by Linda Lomperis Why ‘Race’? by William Chester Jordan