TY  - DATA
AU  - Heng,Geraldine
TI  - ˜Theœ invention of race in the European Middle Ages
SN  - 9781108381710
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Racism / Europe / History / To 1500
KW  - Intercultural communication / Europe / History / To 1500
KW  - Cultural pluralism / Europe / History / To 1500
KW  - Rassentheorie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Antisemitismus
KW  - Rasse
KW  - Rassismus
KW  - Diskriminierung
KW  - Ethnische Identität
KW  - Nationale Minderheit
KW  - Europe / Ethnic relations / History / To 1500
KW  - Europe / Race relations / History / To 1500
KW  - Europa
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108381710
UR  - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/invention-of-race-in-the-european-middle-ages/878223724345B49D515AA39DF3A0B617
ER  -