Bede and the Beginnings of English Racism by Foley, W. Trent
Bede and the Beginnings of English Racism by Foley, W. Trent

Bede and the Beginnings of English Racism

This book examines how the Venerable Bede constructs a racial order in his most famous historical writing,...
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Author: W. Trent Foley
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Language: English
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Bede and the Beginnings of English Racism by Foley, W. Trent

Bede and the Beginnings of English Racism

$353.77
Bede and the Beginnings of English Racism by Foley, W. Trent

Bede and the Beginnings of English Racism

$353.77
Author: W. Trent Foley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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This book examines how the Venerable Bede constructs a racial order in his most famous historical writing, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, a remarkable eighth-century work known for how it combines myth and history into a compelling, charming narrative of the English conversion to Christianity. Yet Bede's History also disturbingly deploys Scripture's tropes and types, many of them anti-Jewish, to render unflattering sketches of some of Britain's "races" (gentes)-especially the Britons. To uncover the History's characterizations of what it identifies as the British, Irish, English, and Latin races, Foley examines three of its episodes that narrate attempted conversions of the first three races- respectively-either to Christianity or to a better, more orthodox, catholic, Latin version of it. This close analysis exposes the theological dimensions of each episode's racial constructions. Foley argues that, unlike modern conceptions of race, which are grounded in imagined biological difference, Bede's is rooted in his perception of a particular race's affective disposition, its habits of the heart. More than that, Bede closely ties a race's disposition to its relative proximity to theological orthodoxy and catholicity. This book's close reading also highlights surprising similarities between Bede's medieval Christian discourse and modern, secular and white discourses on race.

Author: W. Trent Foley
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 06/30/2022
Pages: 221
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 8.59lbs
ISBN: 9782503599267

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