I guess it really depends on how you define "racism." There wa plenty of religious prejudice, which at this time could be considered racism (Jews, FREX, or thr treatment of Sicilian Muslims).
Damon. ------------------------------------------------------------ Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." http://www.geocities.com/garrand.geo/index.html Now Building: Trumpeter's Marder I auf GW 38(h) Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. ------------------------------------------------------------ Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -----Original Message----- From: "PAT MATHEWS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:32:33 To:brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: To the Back of the Bus! >From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Isn't this exactly what the right-wing wants? A return to the 1950s? > > > >1300's. > >----- Don't malign the 1300s that way. The High Middle Ages, while it had many other faults, was far less racist than the Age of Exploration. Their official stance on the subject was the Catholic Church's "We are all children of God and therefore all brothers," (though - considering their class system - some were surely older brothers and some younger) - and their role model was the Roman Empire. Mallory's Knights of the Round Table (quite a bit later, but still...) included a couple of dark-skinned Saracens. Now, by Shakespeare's time, color had become an issue. (Not to mention that Othello was culturally North African, which explains a lot about his willingness to believe the worst of Desdemona.) It was meeting people from other cultures, most of whom were darker than the explorers,that brough racism back into a world in which it had been minor or nonexistent since the Roman Empire. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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