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In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani ('Gypsies'), from the 12th through 15th centuries, she shows how racial thinking, racial law, racial practices, and racial phenomena existed in medieval Europe before a recognizable vocabulary of race emerged in the West. Analysing sources in a variety of media, including stories, maps, statuary, illustrations, architectural features, history, saints' lives, religious commentary, laws, political and social institutions, and literature, she argues that religion - so much in play again today - enabled the positing of fundamental differences among humans that created strategic essentialisms to mark off human groups and populations for racialized treatment. Her ground-breaking study also shows how race figured in the emergence of homo europaeus and the identity of Western Europe in this time.

Über den Autor

Geraldine Heng is Perceval Fellow and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (2012), and England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West (Cambridge, 2018). Originally from Singapore, Heng has held the Winton Chair (for 'paradigm-shifting scholarship') at the University of Minnesota. She has received a number of fellowships and grants, and currently holds an ACLS fellowship to begin a new book, Early Globalities: The Interconnected World, 500-1500 CE. Heng is also Founder and Director of the Global Middle Ages Project: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Inventions/Reinventions; 2. State/Nation; 3. War/Empire; 4. Color; 5. World I; 6. World II; 7. World III.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781108422789
ISBN-10:	1108422780
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Heng, Geraldine
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	260 x 183 x 32 mm
Von/Mit:	Geraldine Heng
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.03.2019
Gewicht:	1,141 kg