samanthalkseal.bsky.social
Feminist Chaucerian and English prof at U. of New Hampshire. Author of "Father Chaucer: Generating Authority in the CT" (Oxford UP, 2019). In progress: "Jackanapes Rising: A Novel of Alice Chaucer" and "1381: Making Race in the Peasants' Revolt."
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It goes to a handful of secondary sources, including an article by Anne Curry called "Isolated or Integrated? The English Soldier in Lancastrian Normandy," from a 2000 edited volume. I bet Curry has the reference. I'll let you know if I find it!
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Right?!? I think somebody else needs to do a thread on that part!
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Exactly! I kept re-reading the thread trying to figure out how he could have come up with that theory...
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I was confused which modernist political scientist you were referring to when I first read this since it's been such an onslaught these past few weeks. I actually just posted about a *different* one.
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And an excerpt from Meir of Norwich on the treatment of his people in medieval England:
"The land exhausts us by demanding payments, and the people’s disgust is heard/While we are silent and wait for the light." (trans. Susan Einbinder)
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For more on medieval England's immigrants, see englandsimmigrants.com
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Medieval England was a heterogenous society in which violence, discrimination, and popular resentment were frequently targeted at individuals and communities seen as different (including lepers), not some pseudo-utopian past of ethno-racial purity.
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And, in fact, the high crime rate of medieval Oxford cited in that thread was often violence between the town and the "diverse" university, with scholars and students fighting against townspeople and vice versa, as in the St. Scholastica's Day Riot of 1355.
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We know this because we see both late medieval legislation and extrajudicial violence directed at "aliens: including Jews (bef. 1290 and converts after), Welsh, Scots, "Flemings," Italians, "Germans," even English "northerners," not to mention Normans and general French, etc.
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We know this because we see both late medieval legislation and extrajudicial violence directed at "aliens: including Jews (bef. 1290 and converts after), Welsh, Scots, "Flemings," Italians, "Germans," even English "northerners," not to mention Normans and general French, etc.
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"Diversity" for that author seems to indicate "non-Europeans." And plenty of scholars have shown the presence of non-Europeans in medieval Britain. But we also need to see how medieval English saw themselves as living in a diverse society because of *other Europeans* and objected to them.
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Wow, I had no idea! That explains so much. The first three are incredible and there is a huge drop off in Nora's character after. Thanks for that info!
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My husband regretted showing me that film because I then insisted on watching all the sequels, one after another. The quality of the later ones descends somewhat quickly, unfortunately. But the first three or so are fabulous!
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Oh that's so good to hear! And I'm so excited about your DuMaurier book too!
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Haha, I know! It's so lovely over here. And as back over there at the other place, I owe you an email...Coming soon!