The invention of race in the European Middle Ages / Geraldine Heng.
Heng, Geraldine, author.
2018
D1056 .H46 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
The invention of race in the European Middle Ages / Geraldine Heng.
Author
Heng, Geraldine, author.
ISBN
9781108422789 (hardcover)
1108422780 (hardcover)
Published
New York, NY ; Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 493 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Call Number
D1056 .H46 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.80094/0902
Summary
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.--Publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Beginnings: racial worlds, medieval worlds: why this book, and how to read a book on medieval race
Inventions/reinventions: race studies, modernity, and the Middle Ages
State/nation: a case study of the racial state: Jews as internal minority in England
War/empire: race figures in the international contest: The Islamic "Saracen"
Color: epidermal race, fantasmatic race: blackness and Africa in the racial sensorium
World I: a global race in the European imaginary: Native Americans in the North Atlantic
World II: the Mongol Empire: global race as absolute power
World III: "gypsies": a global race in diaspora, a slave race for the centuries.

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