The invention of race in the European Middle Ages

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

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'), f...

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Main Author: Heng, Geraldine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Ethnicity > Europe > History.
Cultural pluralism > Europe > History > To 1500.
Race awareness > Europe > History.
Europeans > Race identity > History.
Race > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Race awareness > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Race relations > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Racism > Europe > History > To 1500.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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