Medievalists.net » Michel Foucault http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Marvels and Allies in the East. India as Heterotopia of Latin Europe in the 12th Century http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/18/marvels-and-allies-in-the-east-india-as-heterotopia-of-latin-europe-in-the-12th-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/18/marvels-and-allies-in-the-east-india-as-heterotopia-of-latin-europe-in-the-12th-century/#comments Sat, 18 Jan 2014 23:27:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46776 It has long been said that Latin Europe lost its connection to the East, specifically to Asia, in the early Middle Ages. But this is only part of the truth. From late Antiquity on, there were Christians in many places between the Mediterranean Sea and China.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/18/marvels-and-allies-in-the-east-india-as-heterotopia-of-latin-europe-in-the-12th-century/feed/ 0 Sacrilege, Sacrifice and John Barbour’s Bruce http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/13/sacrilege-sacrifice-and-john-barbours-bruce/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/13/sacrilege-sacrifice-and-john-barbours-bruce/#comments Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:44:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36490 The narrative accomplished on this plane is critical to the foundation, or re-foundation, of royal order after a usurpation, yet it is more than a dynastic expedient;3 rather, it is a story that, even as it bridges the gaps in credibility and legitimacy attendant upon a new royal line, primally reinforces the governing fictions of kingship as an institution.

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