| Description |
xiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Benjamin Isaac, Joseph Ziegler, Miriam Eliav-Feldon -- Racism: a rationalization of prejudice in Greece and Rome / Benjamin Isaac -- The invention of Persia in Classical Athens / H. A. Shapiro -- Racism, color symbolism, and color prejudice / David Goldenberg -- Early Christian universalism and modern forms of racism / Denise Kimber Buell -- Illustrating ethnicity in the Middle Ages / Robert Bartlett -- Proto-racial thought in medieval science / Peter Biller -- Physiognomy, science, and proto-racism 1200-1500 / Joseph Ziegler -- Noble dogs, noble blood: the invention of the concept of race in the late Middle Ages / Charles De Miramon -- The carnal knowing of a coloured body: sleeping with Arabs and Blacks in the European imagination, 1300-1550 / Valentin Groebner -- Was there race before modernity? The example of 'Jewish' blood in late medieval Spain / David Nirenberg -- Religion and race: Protestant and Catholic discourses on Jewish conversations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia -- Vagrants or vermin? Attitudes towards Gypsies in early modern Europe / Miriam Eliav-Feldon -- The peopling of the New World: ethnos, race and empire in the early-modern world / Anthony Pagden -- Demons, stars, and the imagination: the early modern body in the Tropics / Jorge Canizares-Esguerra |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2009 |
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Essays based mostly on lectures given at the Howard Gilman International Conference entitled "Racism in Western Civilization before 1700" held at Tel Aviv University on 13-15 Dec. 2005 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Racism -- History -- Congresses
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Race awareness -- History -- Congresses
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Race relations -- History -- Congresses
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Civilization, Western -- Congresses
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Eliav-Feldon, Miriam, 1946- editor
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Isaac, Benjamin H., editor
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Ziegler, Joseph, 1959- editor
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| ISBN |
9781107687264 |
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1107687268 |
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