boundary 2 is a Duke University Press Journal.
Contents
Sierra Lomuto / Belle da Costa Greene and the Undoing of “Medieval” Studies / 1
Part 1. Cui Bono: Who Is the “Medieval” For?
Raha Rafii / Making Islam (Coherent): Academic Discourse and the Politics of Language / 33
Julie Orlemanski / What Is “Postmedieval”? Embedded Reflections / 57
Michelle R. Warren / The Medieval of the Long Now / 83
Part 2. Disciplinary Dilemmas
Adam Miyashiro / Race, Medieval Studies, and Disciplinary Boundaries / 107
Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh / Fighting for the Middle: Medieval Studies Programs and Degrees within Higher Education / 123
Christopher Livanos and Mohammad Salama / A Bridge Too Far? Ludovico Marracci’s Translation of the Qurʾan and the Persistence of Medieval Biblicism / 145
Part 3. Critical Possibilities
Mariah Min / Undoing Medieval Race Studies / 173
Anne Le / Different and Familiar: Les enfances Renier and the Question of Medieval Orientalism / 189
Shoshana Adler / Spoiled History: Leprosy and the Lessons of Queer Medieval Historiography / 211
Elizabeth J. West / Afterword: In and beyond the Boundaries of Medievalism / 233
Contributors / 247