Modern European colonial ideology has medieval Christian origins

Evidence

I in turn extend an invitation to those who work on the ideologies of colonialism, anticolonialism, and postcolonialism to deepen their historical understanding of these problems through the comparative study of earlier ideological constructs of the other, whether that other is portrayed as the intruding “colonist” or the subjected “colonized.” The European colonial enterprise of the modern era began in many respects in the Middle Ages, and the texts analyzed in this book provide key theoretical underpinnings for European Christian hegemony over those who are non-Christian (or in the case of Irish, Byzantines, and others can somehow be presented as “less” Christian than their conquerors). — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1378

Categorization

• XREF: Directly grounds the vault claim that Islam-West opposition isn’t modern but genealogically continuous with medieval Christian hegemony. — connects to: The same biblical imagery powered both European nationalism and colonial expansion — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 330
• SEED: Angle: the medieval inventions of the ‘less-than-Christian’ other (Irish, Byzantines) as rehearsal for colonial categories.