tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post1680994320499305639..comments2023-02-26T08:28:12.709-05:00Comments on Modern Medieval: Reading R.I. MooreRick Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04109263756022001400noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-4323773348161445222007-12-19T09:12:00.000-05:002007-12-19T09:12:00.000-05:00Thanks for the comment, Magistra (et Mater). I ag...Thanks for the comment, Magistra (et Mater). I agree that those questions or "boundaries" are really problematic. Nonetheless, the thing that seems to unite them is that they're almost always <I>artificial</I> and therefore <I>arbitrary</I>. Sigh.<BR/><BR/>And I'll leave the meme-tag to one of my fellow writers...Matthew Gabrielehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11971159578332078338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-89671683144197294722007-12-19T07:42:00.000-05:002007-12-19T07:42:00.000-05:00I am also doing some meme-tagging, but with a hist...I am also doing some <A HREF="http://www.magistraetmater.blog.co.uk/" REL="nofollow">meme-tagging</A>, but with a historical twist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-49241541998459682792007-12-19T06:29:00.000-05:002007-12-19T06:29:00.000-05:00One of the differences (it seems to me) in the for...One of the differences (it seems to me) in the formation of persecuting societies now is that there is not yet a clear sense of where the boundaries should be placed: who 'we' are as opposed to 'them'. Twelfth and thirteenth century persecutions were working within and creating both a religious boundary (true Christians v others) and proto-nationalistic boundaries e.g. Edward I expelling Jews. At the moment in the US and the UK, there are conflicting ideas about whether the problem is alien religion, alien nationalities, alient ethnicity or alien 'values' e.g. whether you are anti-Muslims, immigrants, brown people or fundamentalists as a whole. It's particularly confusing in the UK, where the most conspicuous group of new arrivals are largely white and Christian (but Eastern European). It's if a way is found to link and line up these identities (as with the medieval conspiracy theories of Lepers, Jews and Muslims) that the biggest problems start.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com