Medieval studies and Orientalism share a distanced observational stance
Evidence
- Catherine Brown, “In the Middle,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30, no. 3 (2000): 547. Brown includes a very useful discussion of the similarities between Orientalism and medieval studies in her article, the latter seeing medieval objects in the same distanced way as Orientalists see the Orient. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 812
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the reader’s own framing — the manufactured image as observational distance — and complements the ‘fear without an object’ thesis.