The all-white reinvention of Medieval Europe commonly depicted in popular fiction, films, tv shows and art is entirely that: a fiction. An invention. An erasure. Obviously, people of color have been an essential and integral part of European life, European art, and European literary imagination since time immemorial. To cite “historical accuracy” as a means to project whitewashed images of the past into the future to maintain a fiction of white supremacy is an unconscionable farce.
People of Color are not an anachronism.
Remember, if a historian doesn’t think black people were in Europe before the modern age as anything but slaves DON’T TRUST THEM AS HISTORIANS.
If this blog has a moral, this is probably it.
And not only Black people; there were also Native Americans in Holland as early as 60 B.C.E.
And also the Mongolian Empire and the Silk Road existed.
But, you know. What are facts?
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