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Ep 153 - Nationalism and Nostalgia feat Dr. Rachel Moss
🕑 Added 2024-02-08 15:05:19 +0000 UTCpatrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. it's an interview, so there's no question answered this week. also, the patron poll mentioned at the beginning of the show will be posted later today
this week, we're continuing our series on proto-nationalism and nationalism by talking to Dr. Rachel Moss about the ways nostalgia is used for evil and, specifically, how false nostalgia for a Middle Ages that didn't exist fuels modern nationalism. we talk about how rose-tinted glasses are used to paint a false picture of the Medieval era, how the same feelings of both good and bad nostalgia similarly affected Medieval people, and modern reactionaries who are really just looking for a new liege lord to oppress them. check it out!
Dr. Rachel Moss is a Sr Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton. Rachel is a Medievalist specializing in Late Medieval English history and literature as well as social and economic history of the Middle Ages, and is holding an upcoming workshop on politicizing nostalgia this summer.
Comments
Mike Goulis
I find myself with mixed feelings about my own nostalgia for roughly 2014-2020 where I had a lot of fun but didn't grow much professionally and feel like I'm paying for it now
Jacob Vardy
I can second that. I got a much stronger western Sydney accent getting to conversational Bahasa Indonesia and Castellano.
Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep
On the accents note, the fun one is that people's regional accents get amplified when they try to speak other languages. (At least that's what happened to me once l got to B1 or B2 level and could actually have a conversation. l would not be surprised if Eleanor sounded more... Tacoma-ey(? I think) in Czech than English).
