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Who were the African people living in Medieval and Tudor England?
You might think that the only people in medieval and early modern England were Normans ... were described by various terms such as: ‘Black’, ‘Ethiopian’ (a word used at the time to ...
'It’s an extremely sexy story': How the legendary tale of 'rebel' saint Mary of Egypt became a medieval blockbuster
Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...
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'It’s an extremely sexy story': How the legendary tale of 'rebel' saint Mary of Egypt became a medieval blockbuster
That tells us medieval people in England were open to models of sanctity that weren"t white, young and obedient. They were open to the otherness of Mary." Mary of Egypt: A Black Saint in Anglo ...