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The invention of race in the European Middle Ages / Geraldine Heng

Heng, Geraldine, 1953- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, February 2018

1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 493 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: The invention of race in the European Middle Ages / Heng, Geraldine (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-108-38171-0 ( : ebook)

978-1-108-42278-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-108-43509-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1029531359     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781108381710

NM 1300  | NM 1500      Ähnliche Literatur

D200

940.1

Basisklassifikation: 71.62 (Ethnische Beziehungen)

SSG-Nummer(n): 0

*Europa ; Rasse ; Mittelalter      Zum Register

*Europa ; Ethnische Identität ; Rasse ; Rassismus ; Antisemitismus ; Diskriminierung ; Rassentheorie ; Nationale Minderheit ; Geschichte 1200-1500     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Ethnicity -- Europe -- History ; Race awareness -- Europe -- History ; Europeans -- Race identity -- History ; Europe -- Ethnic relations -- History -- To 1500 ; Europe -- Race relations -- History -- To 1500 ; Cultural pluralism -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 ; Intercultural communication -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 ; Racism -- Europe -- History -- To 1500

Racism ; Europe ; History ; To 1500 ; Intercultural communication ; Europe ; History ; To 1500 ; Cultural pluralism ; Europe ; History ; To 1500 ; Europe ; Ethnic relations ; History ; To 1500 ; Europe ; Race relations ; History ; To 1500

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