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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Heng, Geraldine
Titre(s) : The invention of race in the European Middle Ages [Texte imprimé] / Geraldine Heng
Publication : New York, NY ; Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-493 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 457-481. Index
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
Sujet(s) : Race -- Europe -- 476-1492
Relations interethniques -- Europe -- Moyen âge
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108422789. - ISBN 1108422780 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45533727b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45533727
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.