The Resource The invention of race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng
The invention of race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 493 pages
- Contents
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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
- Isbn
- 9781108422789
- Label
- The invention of race in the European Middle Ages
- Title
- The invention of race in the European Middle Ages
- Statement of responsibility
- Geraldine Heng
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- PUL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Heng, Geraldine
- Dewey number
- 305.80094/0902
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- D1056
- LC item number
- .H46 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ethnicity
- Race awareness
- Europeans
- Mittelalter
- Rasse
- Europa
- Ethnicity
- Race awareness
- Europe
- Label
- The invention of race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 1002124998
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 493 pages
- Isbn
- 9781108422789
- Lccn
- 2017035904
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40028300807
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1002124998
- Label
- The invention of race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 1002124998
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 493 pages
- Isbn
- 9781108422789
- Lccn
- 2017035904
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40028300807
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1002124998
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