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How can we learn from the pre-modern past to make sense of our current world? This writing-intensive course critically studies the structures and operations of exclusion in the Middle Ages through art and visual culture. Students will develop awareness of the historical instances of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and beliefs in the medieval world. The aims of the course itself are antiracist: we will foster time for thought and self-reflection, generate ideas for implementation, and learn from our readings and writings as well as from each other.