Patois of the Parishes: A Jim Crow Genealogy of the Middle Ages.

This essay examines the birth of French medieval studies in America as a product of the racial anxiety and cultural-linguistic precarity experienced by Creoles. It argues that the idea of the French Middle Ages in North America, the conceptual matrix through which it became thinkable and desirable a...

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Published in:	American Historical Review Vol. 130; no. 1; pp. 52 - 80
Main Author:	Ritchey, Sara
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Mar2025
Subjects:	Medieval studies French studies Race relations in the United States Creoles Jim Crow laws Mercier, Alfred Louisiana
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost