The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

About the author

Geraldine Heng is Perceval Fellow and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (2012), and England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West (Cambridge, 2018). Originally from Singapore, Heng has held the Winton Chair (for 'paradigm-shifting scholarship') at the University of Minnesota. She has received a number of fellowships and grants, and currently holds an ACLS fellowship to begin a new book, Early Globalities: The Interconnected World, 500-1500 CE. Heng is also Founder and Director of the Global Middle Ages Project: www.globalmiddleages.org.

Product details

• Authors: Geraldine Heng, Heng Geraldine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2019
• EAN: 9781108435093
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43509-3
• Dimensions: 179 mm x 253 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & cultural history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Political science and theory, History and Archaeology