Return of the Black Knight
Reflections on Africa and the Construction of Medieval European Identity
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 9 December 2025
- ISBN 9781032832357
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages168 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 Illustrations, black & white; 4 Halftones, black & white 700
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Return of the Black Knight presents an intersectional inquiry into the global medieval. This innovative historiography boldly reimagines medieval European identity through the critical lenses of race, gender, and class to reveal complex intercultural dynamics that continue to influence socio-political debates across the globe today.
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Return of the Black Knight presents an intersectional inquiry into the global medieval. This innovative historiography boldly reimagines medieval European identity through the critical lenses of race, gender, and class to reveal complex intercultural dynamics that continue to influence socio-political debates across the globe today.
Keita weaves together methodological understandings of medieval Europe with alternative readings of primary sources to uncover African presences – frequently female and spanning diverse social classes – embedded within the epoch’s myths, folklore, literature, and visual arts. This careful excavation of overlooked historical figures and influences posits a medieval Europe far richer and more diverse than conventional scholarship has acknowledged. The "othered" are quite more than simply "present" in the Age – in fact, they are significant actors and agents who helped create and shape it.
This book is a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in global history, medieval Europe, historiography, African history, race and gender studies, and art history.
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List of Illustrations
Preface
Part I – The Introduction: Conceptualization and Ways of Knowing
1) Introduction
2) Conceptualization
3) Theory
Part II – Lives and Symbols
4) Literary Interrogation: of “Elephants,” Saracens, and Moors
5) Historical Imagination: The African in Classical Service
6) The African in Romanized Britain
7) Sir Palamedes: The African in Romanized Britain
Part III – Race, Romance, and Empire
8) The Blanching of Britain: Spenser and Scott
9) Wagner: Deracinating the Reich
10) Of What Do Singing Girls Sing?
11) Epilogue: Black Knights, Dark Ladies, Swarthy Knaves
Index
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Return of the Black Knight: Reflections on Africa and the Construction of Medieval European Identity
