White Before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages, Hardback

This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that the ‘before’ of whiteness is less a retro-futuristic temporisation than a set of strategies and discursive praxes that produce and yet delimit a range of medieval ideological regimes. -- .

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Author(s): Wan-Chuan (Assistant Professor of English) Kao
• Illustration(s): 26 black & white illustrations
• Number of pages: 456
• Collection: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Publication date: 2024
• Dimensions: 146 x 224 x 31
• Cover type: Hardback