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Brown Bag Conversations- "Before Prejudice? Danes & Monsters in Anglo-Saxon England
(Lectures/Talks)
Featuring Jackie Stodnick, English Department
Was it "prejudice" that motivated King Ethelred to command a massacre of all the Danes living in England on November 12, 1002? And what does this massacre have to do with the monstrous warriors, dog-headed men, men with heads in their chests, and centaurs of the so-called Beowulf-manuscript, copied around the same time? What can the "prejudices" of a much earlier time - a time before the word "prejudice" even existed in the English language - tell us about the antagonist foundations of contemporary ethnic or racial identities? If you thought the Middle Ages were simple, then maybe you have pre-judged them!
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