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本文认为,1500年前黑圣母存在的证据的模糊性和稀缺性并不妨碍中世纪学者进行前现代批判种族研究,以进一步研究她的早期历史。运用科德·惠特克(Cord Whitaker)对中世纪档案中“黑暗的微光”的研究,以及卡琳·瓦姆斯(Karin v lez)对圣母像颜色随时间和空间变化的研究,我认为1500年前后的文本记录,根据可辨的、连贯的、连续的修辞模式,见证了黑色圣母,尽管方式有些模糊。这个记录描述了黑圣母的委婉语,绕弯子,否定,暗示和悖论的一致语法,将她的黑暗与物质性,神秘性和神奇的力量联系在一起。从13世纪到21世纪,我在对《黑色圣母》的评论中追踪了这些模式,特别关注了沃尔辛厄姆圣母和威尔斯登圣母的历史。
ABSTRACT This article argues that the ambiguity and scarcity of the evidence for the existence of the Black Madonna before the year 1500 need not prevent medievalists practicing premodern critical race studies from pursuing further study of her early history. Applying the work of Cord Whitaker on the “shimmer of blackness” in the medieval archive and of Karin Vélez on the mutability of the coloration of the Madonna across time and space, I make the case that the textual record on either side of 1500, before and after, bears witness to the Black Madonna according to discernible, coherent, and continuous rhetorical patterns, although in ways that are shimmeringly ambiguous. This record describes the Black Madonna by means of a consistent grammar of euphemism, circumlocution, negation, insinuation, and paradox that associates her darkness with materiality, mystery, and miraculous power. I trace these patterns across commentary on the Black Madonna ranging from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century, focusing in particular on the histories of Our Lady of Walsingham and Our Lady of Willesden.