Author: Jonathan Burton File Type: pdf This collection makes available for the first time a rich archive of materials that illuminate the history of racial thought and practices in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. A comprehensive introduction shows how these writings on religion, skin color, sexual and marital practices, geography, and the human body are crucial for understanding the pre-Enlightenment lineages of racial categories.ReviewA terrific supplement to research and teaching on race. Assembling a range of disparate and difficult to find materials from early modern English writing and their classical antecedents, this collection will change how we think about early racial conception. It is an indispensable component of any comprehensive library on the history of race and racism.--David Theo Goldberg, Director and Professor, University of California Humanities Research InstituteRecent preferencing of nationalism over pan-Europeanism and the return of religious fundamentalisms, of crusade and jihad, suggest recursion to the premodern. This book, dedicated to early modern England, tests such suggestions to the full its timeliness can hardly be exaggerated.An astutely edited, capacious anthology.--David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English, University of PennsylvaniaThis rich collection changes the conversation about early modern ideas of race. Burton and Loombas smashing introduction is a model of clarity on a complex topic, and they have intelligently assembled a wide range of primary materials, including a number of compelling and little-known visual images, that reveal the salience and ubiquity of race as an early modern concept. A magnificently useful classroom text, Race in Early Modern England is a state-of-the-art contribution to contemporary scholarship on racial difference.--Jean E. Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, Columbia UniversityLoomba and Burton have given us a rich treasure in this collection oftexts on race in early modern England. Many categories of difference are at play here, and the editors insightful commentary helps us navigate through thesewide-ranging and unsettling English views about peoples of another religion or ethnicity or appearance. An absorbing book and an essential resource for early modern studies.--Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton UniversityAbout the AuthorAnia Loomba is the Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism, ColonialismPostcolonialism, and Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama, as well as the co-editor of Postcolonial Studies and Beyond and Postcolonial Shakespeares. Jonathan Burton is Woodburn Associate Professor of English Literature at West Virginia University. He is the author of Traffic and Turning Islam and English Drama, 1579-1624.

Author: Andrej Petrovic File Type: pdf Was Ancient Greek religion really mere ritualism? Early Christians denounced the pagans for the disorderly plurality of their cults, and reduced Greek religion to ritual and idolatry Protestant theologians condemned the pagan religion of form (with Catholicism as its historical heir). For a long time, scholars tended to conceptualize Greek religion as one in which belief did not matter, and religiosity had to do with observance of rituals and religious practices, rather than with worshipers inner investment. But what does it mean when Greek texts time and again speak of purity of mind, soul, and thoughts? This book takes a radical new look at the Ancient Greek notions of purity and pollution. Its main concern is the inner state of the individual worshipper as they approach the gods and interact with the divine realm in a ritual context. It is a book about Greek worshippers inner attitudes towards the gods and rituals, and about what kind of inner attitude the Greek gods were envisaged to expect from their worshippers. In the wider sense, it is a book about the role of belief in ancient Greek religion. By exploring the Greek notions of inner purity and pollution from Hesiod to Plato, the significance of intrinsic, faith-based elements in Greek religious practices is revealed--thus providing the first history of the concepts of inner purity and pollution in early Greek religion. **

Author: Muriel Rukeyser File Type: pdf Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a powerful voice against enforced silences of all kind, against the violence of war, poverty, and racism. Her eloquent poetry of witness-of the Scottsboro Nine, the Spanish Civil War, the poisoning of the Gauley Bridge laborers-split the darkness covering a shameful world. In addition to the complete texts of her twelve previously published books, this volume also features new poems discovered by the editors Rukeysers translations, including the first English translations of Octavio Pazs work early work by Rukeyser not previously published in book form and the controversial book-length poem Wake Island. An introduction by the editors traces Rukeysers life and literary reputation and complements discerning annotations and textual notes to the poems.

Author: Ann Williams File Type: pdf thelred became king of England in 978, following the murder of his brother Edward the Martyr (possibly at the instigation of their mother) at Corfe. On his own death in April 1016, his son Edmund Ironside succeeded him and fought the invading Danes bravely, but died in November of the same year after being defeated at the battle of Assandun, leading to the House of Wessex being replaced by a Danish king, Cnut. thelred, in constrast to his predecessor and successor, reigned (except for a few months in 1013-14), largely unchallenged for thirty-eight years, despite presiding over a period which saw many Danish invasions and much internal strife. If not a great king, he was certainly a survivor whose posthumous reputation and nickname (meaning Noble Council the No Council) do him little justice. In thelred the Unready Ann Williams, a leading scholar on his reign, discounts the later rumours and misinterpretations that have dogged his reputation to construct a record of his reign from contemporary sources.