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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Paperback)
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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.
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