Medieval History
From Rosa Parks' refusal to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala., to the "Little Rock Nine," who defied school segregation in Arkansas, most of the civil rights clashes of the 20th century played out on the turf where the Confederacy had fought to preserve slavery 100 years earlier.
If a century seems like a long time for a culture of racism to persist, consider the findings of a recent study on the persistence of anti-Semitism in Germany: Communities that murdered their Jewish populations during the 14th-century Black Death pogroms were more likely to demonstrate a violent hatred of Jews nearly 600 years later. A culture of intolerance can be very persistent indeed.
Click here to read this article from Slate.com
Click here to read the article Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
- María Rosa Menocal, Medieval Historian, Passes Away
María Rosa Menocal, a renowned scholar and historian of medieval culture and literature, passed away on October 15th after a three-year battle with melanoma. Menocal, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale and former director of the Whitney...
- Minnesota Professor Receives Funding To Research Medieval Religious Women In Germany
In the past year, Jennifer Deane, associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota Morris, has received two grants: the University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid-of-Research and a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, which fund...
- German City Banks Future On Unearthing Jewish Past
COLOGNE, Germany - This city in western Germany is banking its future on its Jewish past. But at present, the investment is exacting a heavy price: $52 million, to be exact. Following a divisive decades-long battle, Cologne's municipal government...
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Today, in case you weren't aware, is MLK, Jr. Day. The AP has an article here, saying that MLK's legacy has been "flattened" and the complexity of the man himself has been largely forgotten (they say "ignored," but that's not the right word)....
- 41st Annual Conference Southeastern Medieval Association (sema)
Forty-First Annual ConferenceSoutheastern Medieval AssociationLittle Rock, AR October 22-24, 2015 "Heaven, Hell, and Little Rock" Call for Papers You are cordially invited to participate in the 2015 meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association....
Medieval History
The Persistence of Hate: German communities that murdered Jews in the Middle Ages were more likely to support the Nazis 600 years later
From Rosa Parks' refusal to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala., to the "Little Rock Nine," who defied school segregation in Arkansas, most of the civil rights clashes of the 20th century played out on the turf where the Confederacy had fought to preserve slavery 100 years earlier.
If a century seems like a long time for a culture of racism to persist, consider the findings of a recent study on the persistence of anti-Semitism in Germany: Communities that murdered their Jewish populations during the 14th-century Black Death pogroms were more likely to demonstrate a violent hatred of Jews nearly 600 years later. A culture of intolerance can be very persistent indeed.
Click here to read this article from Slate.com
Click here to read the article Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
- María Rosa Menocal, Medieval Historian, Passes Away
María Rosa Menocal, a renowned scholar and historian of medieval culture and literature, passed away on October 15th after a three-year battle with melanoma. Menocal, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale and former director of the Whitney...
- Minnesota Professor Receives Funding To Research Medieval Religious Women In Germany
In the past year, Jennifer Deane, associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota Morris, has received two grants: the University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid-of-Research and a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, which fund...
- German City Banks Future On Unearthing Jewish Past
COLOGNE, Germany - This city in western Germany is banking its future on its Jewish past. But at present, the investment is exacting a heavy price: $52 million, to be exact. Following a divisive decades-long battle, Cologne's municipal government...
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Today, in case you weren't aware, is MLK, Jr. Day. The AP has an article here, saying that MLK's legacy has been "flattened" and the complexity of the man himself has been largely forgotten (they say "ignored," but that's not the right word)....
- 41st Annual Conference Southeastern Medieval Association (sema)
Forty-First Annual ConferenceSoutheastern Medieval AssociationLittle Rock, AR October 22-24, 2015 "Heaven, Hell, and Little Rock" Call for Papers You are cordially invited to participate in the 2015 meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association....