{"id":133,"date":"2017-01-30T12:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T17:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/?p=133"},"modified":"2017-01-30T12:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T17:57:24","slug":"are-manuscripts-biased-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/are-manuscripts-biased-in-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Are manuscripts biased in perspective?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thus far, our class conversation surrounding illuminated manuscripts has made it\u00a0apparent that the primary creators of these works\u00a0were\u00a0male. Recently, in my <em>Sexuality &amp; Gender of Ancient Greece and Rome<\/em> classics course, we&#8217;ve discussed the problem of male-centered primary resources. I think this dialogue could be extended to works such as Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures or the Book of Kells.<\/p>\n<p>The question becomes, are we making assumptions and associations of a time period based on a male-dominated perspective? Are we truly understanding stories\u00a0of the time if we are only receiving half the story? These illuminators have the ability to portray whatever it is they would like, as we discussed with their ability to incorporate their patrons into works with either kind or snarky effects. This makes me wonder if their representation of culture are\u00a0swayed or inaccurate. I&#8217;m curious to hear other people&#8217;s thoughts on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus far, our class conversation surrounding illuminated manuscripts has made it\u00a0apparent that the primary creators of these works\u00a0were\u00a0male. Recently, in my Sexuality &amp; Gender of Ancient Greece and Rome classics course, we&#8217;ve discussed the problem of male-centered primary resources. I think this dialogue could be extended to works such as Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures or the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/are-manuscripts-biased-in-perspective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are manuscripts biased in perspective?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}