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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 657–659.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-10689729
Published: 01 September 2023
... Edited by Marcel Elias Volume 55 / Number 3 / September 2025 The late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed the publication of a substantial body of scholarship exploring the intersections and points of friction between medieval studies and postcolonial theory. Yet over the past twenty years, the field...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 441–443.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-11130442
Published: 01 May 2024
... of a substantial body of scholarship exploring the intersections and points of friction between medieval studies and postcolonial theory. Yet, over the past twenty years, the field of postcolonial studies has developed and diversified considerably, signaling the urgent need for new contributions by medievalists...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 217–219.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-10948557
Published: 01 January 2024
... / September 2025 The late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed the publication of a substantial body of scholarship exploring the intersections and points of friction between medieval studies and postcolonial theory. Yet, over the past twenty years, the field of postcolonial studies has developed...
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Signifying Gender and Empire

Clare A. Lees, Gillian R. Overing
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-34-1-1
Published: 01 January 2004
... our newer interests in subalterns, crusades, borderlands, or that medieval world mapped by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen as a “postcolonial Middle Ages.” Such a world “has no frontiers, only heterogeneous borderlands with multiple centers” and “a reconfigured geog- raphy” that includes “Asia, Africa...
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Decolonizing the Middle Ages: Introduction

John Dagenais
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 431–448.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-30-3-431
Published: 01 September 2000
.... Rather we must learn to use The Middle Ages as a staging ground for a disruption and critique of Modernity from within Modernity itself. There are risks inherent, of course, in the adoption of colonial/ postcolonial perspectives as a way of getting...
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On Saracen Enjoyment: Some Fantasies of Race in Late Medieval France and England

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 113–146.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-31-1-113
Published: 01 January 2001
... / $2.00. JMEMS31.1-05 Cohen 2/26/01 7:00 PM Page 114 of psychoanalysis and the temporally circumscribed discourses of medieval and postcolonial studies, especially as they relate to the construction of race in late medieval France and England. These three modes...
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The Cultural Processes of “Appropriation”

Kathleen Ashley, Véronique Plesch
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 1–15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-32-1-1
Published: 01 January 2002
... in Current The- ories of Colonial Discourse,” Benita Parry noted the deconstructive ten- dency to produce “a theory assigning absolute power to the hegemonic dis- course in constituting and disarticulating the native.” She criticized even the leading postcolonial theorist, Gayatri Spivak...
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From Holy War to Border Skirmish: The Colonial Chivalry of Sydney's First Professors

Louise D'Arcens
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 519–545.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-30-3-519
Published: 01 September 2000
..., in the glittering hall of Camelot, or the cloistered cell of Almesbury. —John Woolley, Professor, University of Sydney1 Medievalism and postcolonialism Launcelot gallops through bush land, while the dead Elaine floats inland from the harbor up...
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The King's Tree Body: The Taming of the Wilderness and the Ecology of Kingship in Perceforest

Brooke Heidenreich Findley
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 233–262.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-3491786
Published: 01 May 2016
... to the fourteenth century; for the argument for a fifteenth-­century date, see Gilles Roussineau, “Nouvelles remarques sur la genèse de l’oeuvre,” in Perceforest: Première partie, ed. Gilles Roussineau (Genève: Droz, 2007), ix – xlvi. Sylvia Huot, Postcolonial Fictions in the “Roman de Perceforest...
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Empire, Shame, and Medieval Text Editing: The Case of Beowulf Line 1382a

Stephen Yeager
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 201–224.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-10416571
Published: 01 May 2023
... that they have generated. 6 Because my aim here is neither so synthetic nor so oriented toward critics of the poem, I address these fuller histories only indirectly. Nor do I engage with the many readings of the poem informed by postcolonial theory, productive though such examinations have been. 7 Instead...
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The Remains of the Jew: Imperial Christian Identity in the Late Ancient Holy Land

Andrew S. Jacobs
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 23–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-33-1-23
Published: 01 January 2003
... be conjured up and absorbed into a new Christian self, the ways in which Christian empire could be built on the remains of the Jew. To this end I shall make use of recent strands of postcolonial criti- cism, strategies for reading imperial and colonial texts that emphasize not only the brute...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 425–426.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-32-2-425
Published: 01 May 2002
... features many examples of empire-building and is noticeably marked by both imperial acts and (post-) colonial fantasies. Yet these subjects barely register in contemporary analyses of national, colonial, or postcolonial formations. The aim of this special issue of JMEMS is not simply to rectify...
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Periodization, Race, and Global Contact

Ania Loomba
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 595–620.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2007-015
Published: 01 September 2007
... have made visible the long and complex lineages of these contemporary polarizations, arguing that cul- ture wars of the premodern world are indeed the precursors of colonial and postcolonial divisions, while others have preferred to illuminate an equally long history of porous boundaries between...
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Sacrilege and Theatricality: the Croxton Play of the Sacrament

David Lawton
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 281–309.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-33-2-281
Published: 01 May 2003
... into the postcolonial; and the enabling move is Kathleen Biddick’s proposition that “the periodization of colonial- ism . . . begins to look very different if one includes Jews.”22 This move 290 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.2 / 2003 occurred at the same time as some fine work on the body...
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The Madness of Hugo van der Goes: The Troubled Search for Origins in Early Netherlandish Painting

Shira Brisman
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 321–365.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-8929080
Published: 01 May 2021
... the intention of postcolonial theory, which, in removing from the word postcolonial the hyphen between the prefix and the adjective it describes refers not to two moments—the before and after of early modern conquest—but to social conditions of subjugation that exist in occupied, dependent, diasporic...
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Crossing Religious Boundaries in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean

John Jeffries Martin
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (3): 459–462.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-1363909
Published: 01 September 2011
... in the Mediterranean — drawn, either directly or indirectly, on new questions about the past enabled by recent work in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41:3, Fall 2011 DOI 10.1215/10829636-­1363909  © 2011 by Duke University Press cultural history, postcolonial studies...
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Motherhood and Ritual Murder in Medieval Spain and England

Barbara F. Weissberger
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 7–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2008-011
Published: 01 January 2009
... this hybridity and the phobic reaction to it. It depicts the con- verso as a grotesque, composite animal, a kind of monster. See the edition by Dwayne Carpenter, Alborayque (Mérida: Editora Regional de Extremadura, 2005). For the usefulness of postcolonial theory’s exploration of “the discordant...
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The Difference the Middle Ages Makes: Color and Race before the Modern World

Hahn Thomas
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 1–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-31-1-1
Published: 01 January 2001
... discourses of race to explain differences among peoples who appear, especially from Western perspectives, homogeneous in color, territo- rial origins, and shared histories. Postcolonial analyses that preceded renewed conflicts (1985–90) identified “race”—here defined...
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Shades of the East: Orientalism, Religion, and Nation in Late Medieval Scottish Literature

Iain Macleod Higgins
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 197–228.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2007-024
Published: 01 May 2008
... and Medievalism,” in The Postcolonial Middle Ages, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 105 – 22 and 123 – 34, respectively. See also John V. Tolan, Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination (New York: Columbia Univer- sity Press, 2002). Lucy K. Pick’s critique of Said...
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In the Middle

Catherine Brown
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 547–574.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-30-3-547
Published: 01 September 2000
... 549 JMEMS30.3-07.Brown 9/1/00 5:05 PM Page 550 medieval, and have someplace exotic to fly to when modern life got too, well, modern. Or so that we could have a convenient Other against which to define ourselves. Colonial and postcolonial theory does...
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