Nadia R Altschul
Biographic Data
| ID | 642314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadia R Altschul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadia R |
| FAMILY NAME | Altschul |
| SIGNATURE | ALTSCHUL N R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1457-1723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pasado y futuro del neomedievalismo “fuera de lugar”
Qué significa la Edad Media fuera de Europa, si Europa es el lugar directamente asociado con su origen y pertenencia? ¿Qué hacer con una Edad Media que, siguiendo el conocido término de Roberto Schwartz sobre las “ideas fuera de lugar”, está allí donde aparentemente no le corresponde? ¿Qué explicación podemos considerar para este trance de aparente inadecuación a ciertas geografías? El neomedievalismo es una aproximación a la Edad Media retomada …
The Decolonial Imperative
The imperative to decolonize has now taken several disciplines by storm. For many, the foil of the call to decolonize are postcolonial approaches, presented as tainted by coloniality and as having a reduced to non-existent liberating potential. This essay highlights critiques of the Latin American decolonial project, including decoloniality as an academic power struggle leading to self-progression and enrichment of global north academics and inst…
Politics of Temporalization
Orientalism, Medievalism, Colonialism, and Militarized Mercantilism
This chapter investigates the intersections of British medievalism and colonialism in two very different places in the world: early nineteenth-century Chile, as Britain exercised economic domination over parts of the former Spanish Empire (thus it will be termed neocolonial); and late eighteenth-century India, as British officials devised strategies for extracting revenue from Bengal. Despite their many differences, in both cases an area beyond E…
Em Busca dos Dragões
O presente artigo introduz o dossiê "Idade Média no Brasil" e propõe uma breve discussão do neo-medievalismo como caminho para a interpretação das manifestações do "medieval" no Brasil contemporâneo
Writing Argentine Premodernity
Focusing on the writer–statesman Domingo F. Sarmiento (1811–88), this essay examines the functionality of medievalization in Argentina's internal colonialism. The extent to which allocation of medievality was employed by this foundational political figure, identifies this temporal trope as a core element in the civilizational mapping of post-independence Argentina and Spanish America. Sarmiento's settler postcolonial writing proposed, as part and…
In memoriam
In memoriam: María Rosa Menocal:(Cuba 1953-USA 2012), Sterling Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University Nadia R. Altschul, Managing Editor It is with a heavy heart and a measure of disbelief that I write an obituary for my extraordinary Ph.D. mentor, who died from a rare form of cancer on October 15 at too early an age. For many of us it is quite hard to reconcile with the idea of her death—María …
The City of Translation
No abstract available
The future of postcolonial approaches to medieval Iberian studies
This article delineates some of the historical characteristics of medieval Iberia that make postcolonial studies especially appealing for a renovation of this multi‐disciplinary field, and it suggests specific openings for future research inflected by postcolonial studies. By discussing in particular the concepts of mimicry and transculturation, this piece exemplifies avenues for nuancing the notion of cultural contact, for rethinking the overuse…
Postcolonialism and the Study of the Middle Ages
This article focuses on the use of postcolonial criticism in the study of the European Middle Ages. It concentrates on two issues critiqued in particular by historians: anachronism and applicability. The article is thus structured around two questions: Why should medievalists explore contemporary postcolonial issues instead of strictly medieval ones? And why should the tools of postcolonial theory be considered applicable to medieval societies an…
The future of postcolonial approaches to medieval Iberian studies
This article delineates some of the historical characteristics of medieval Iberia that make postcolonial studies especially appealing for a renovation of this multi‐disciplinary field, and it suggests specific openings for future research inflected by postcolonial studies. By discussing in particular the concepts of mimicry and transculturation, this piece exemplifies avenues for nuancing the notion of cultural contact, for rethinking the overuse…
Postcolonialism and the Study of the Middle Ages
This article focuses on the use of postcolonial criticism in the study of the European Middle Ages. It concentrates on two issues critiqued in particular by historians: anachronism and applicability. The article is thus structured around two questions: Why should medievalists explore contemporary postcolonial issues instead of strictly medieval ones? And why should the tools of postcolonial theory be considered applicable to medieval societies an…
Postcolonialism and the Study of the Middle Ages
This article focuses on the use of postcolonial criticism in the study of the European Middle Ages. It concentrates on two issues critiqued in particular by historians: anachronism and applicability. The article is thus structured around two questions: Why should medievalists explore contemporary postcolonial issues instead of strictly medieval ones? And why should the tools of postcolonial theory be considered applicable to medieval societies an…
The future of postcolonial approaches to medieval Iberian studies
This article delineates some of the historical characteristics of medieval Iberia that make postcolonial studies especially appealing for a renovation of this multi‐disciplinary field, and it suggests specific openings for future research inflected by postcolonial studies. By discussing in particular the concepts of mimicry and transculturation, this piece exemplifies avenues for nuancing the notion of cultural contact, for rethinking the overuse…
The City of Translation
No abstract available
In memoriam
In memoriam: María Rosa Menocal:(Cuba 1953-USA 2012), Sterling Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University Nadia R. Altschul, Managing Editor It is with a heavy heart and a measure of disbelief that I write an obituary for my extraordinary Ph.D. mentor, who died from a rare form of cancer on October 15 at too early an age. For many of us it is quite hard to reconcile with the idea of her death—María …
Writing Argentine Premodernity
Focusing on the writer–statesman Domingo F. Sarmiento (1811–88), this essay examines the functionality of medievalization in Argentina's internal colonialism. The extent to which allocation of medievality was employed by this foundational political figure, identifies this temporal trope as a core element in the civilizational mapping of post-independence Argentina and Spanish America. Sarmiento's settler postcolonial writing proposed, as part and…
Politics of Temporalization
Orientalism, Medievalism, Colonialism, and Militarized Mercantilism
This chapter investigates the intersections of British medievalism and colonialism in two very different places in the world: early nineteenth-century Chile, as Britain exercised economic domination over parts of the former Spanish Empire (thus it will be termed neocolonial); and late eighteenth-century India, as British officials devised strategies for extracting revenue from Bengal. Despite their many differences, in both cases an area beyond E…
Em Busca dos Dragões
O presente artigo introduz o dossiê "Idade Média no Brasil" e propõe uma breve discussão do neo-medievalismo como caminho para a interpretação das manifestações do "medieval" no Brasil contemporâneo
The Decolonial Imperative
The imperative to decolonize has now taken several disciplines by storm. For many, the foil of the call to decolonize are postcolonial approaches, presented as tainted by coloniality and as having a reduced to non-existent liberating potential. This essay highlights critiques of the Latin American decolonial project, including decoloniality as an academic power struggle leading to self-progression and enrichment of global north academics and inst…
Pasado y futuro del neomedievalismo “fuera de lugar”
Qué significa la Edad Media fuera de Europa, si Europa es el lugar directamente asociado con su origen y pertenencia? ¿Qué hacer con una Edad Media que, siguiendo el conocido término de Roberto Schwartz sobre las “ideas fuera de lugar”, está allí donde aparentemente no le corresponde? ¿Qué explicación podemos considerar para este trance de aparente inadecuación a ciertas geografías? El neomedievalismo es una aproximación a la Edad Media retomada …
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Medieval Iberian Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)