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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

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This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.

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1108422780

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Empire of Magic

Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy

By: Geraldine Heng

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Empire of Magic

Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy

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Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and posits that the Middle Ages and medieval fantasies of race and religion have recently returned. Drawing on feminist and gender theory, as well as cultural analyses of race, class, and colonialism, this provocative book revises our understanding of the beginnings of the nine hundred-year-old cultural genre we call romance, as well as the King Arthur legend. Geraldine Heng argues that romance arose in the twelfth century as a cultural response to the trauma and horror of taboo acts--in particular the cannibalism committed by crusaders on the bodies of Muslim enemies in Syria during the First Crusade. From such encounters with the East, Heng suggests, sprang the fantastical episodes featuring King Arthur in Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicle The History of the Kings of England, a work where history and fantasy collide and merge, each into the other, inventing crucial new examples and models for romances to come. After locating the rise of romance and Arthurian legend in the contact zones of East and West, Heng demonstrates the adaptability of romance and its key role in the genesis of an English national identity. Discussing Jews, women, children, and sexuality in works like the romance of Richard Lionheart, stories of the saintly Constance, Arthurian chivralic literature, the legend of Prester John, and travel narratives, Heng shows how fantasy enabled audiences to work through issues of communal identity, race, color, class and alternative sexualities in socially sanctioned and safe modes of cultural discussion in which pleasure, not anxiety, was paramount. Romance also engaged with the threat of modernity in the late medieval period, as economic, social, and technological transformations occurred and awareness grew of a vastly enlarged world beyond Europe, one encompassing India, China, and Africa. Finally, Heng posits, romance locates England and Europe within an empire of magic and knowledge that surveys the world and makes it intelligible--usable--for the future. Empire of Magic is expansive in scope, spanning the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, and detailed in coverage, examining various types of romance--historical, national, popular, chivalric, family, and travel romances, among others--to see how cultural fantasy responds to changing crises, pressures, and demands in a number of different ways. Boldly controversial, theoretically sophisticated, and historically rooted, Empire of Magic is a dramatic restaging of the role romance played in the culture of a period and world in ways that suggest how cultural fantasy still functions for us today.

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Empire of Magic

Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy

By: Geraldine Heng

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Empire of Magic

Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy

By: Geraldine Heng

Drawing upon feminist and gender theory, as well as cultural analyses of race, class and colonialism, this book revises our understanding of the literary genre of medieval romance. It argues that the romance genre arose in the 12th century as a cultural response to the trauma of war.

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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

By: Geraldine Heng

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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

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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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Cambridge University Press

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1108395228

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The Global Middle Ages

An Introduction

By: Geraldine Heng

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The Global Middle Ages

An Introduction

By: Geraldine Heng

The Global Middle Ages: An Introduction discusses how, when, and why a 'global Middle Ages' was conceptualized; explains and considers the terms that are deployed in studying, teaching, and researching a Global Middle Ages; and critically reflects on the issues that arise in the establishment of this relatively new field of academic endeavor. An Introduction surveys the considerable gains to be had in developing a critical early global studies, and introduces the collaborative work of the Cambridge Elements series in the Global Middle Ages.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009204785

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England and the Jews

How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West

By: Geraldine Heng

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England and the Jews

How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West

By: Geraldine Heng

For three centuries, a mixture of religion, violence, and economic conditions created a fertile matrix in Western Europe that racialized an entire diasporic population who lived in the urban centers of the Latin West: Jews. This Element explores how religion and violence, visited on Jewish bodies and Jewish lives, coalesced to create the first racial state in the history of the West. It is an example of how the methods and conceptual frames of postcolonial and race studies, when applied to the study of religion, can be productive of scholarship that rewrites the foundational history of the past.

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1108698182

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“By Faith”

Henry W. Frost and the China Inland Mission

By: Dr. Howard Taylor,Geraldine Taylor

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“By Faith”

Henry W. Frost and the China Inland Mission

By: Dr. Howard Taylor,Geraldine Taylor

By inspired definition faith is ‘being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” By faith we are saved. By faith we are justified. By faith we please God. Though faith is central in the Christian life, we somehow are amazed when we see the vitality and power of faith at work in ordinary people’s lives. In each generation we see a special few men and women who have stretched themselves by risking everything on the sure promises of God. In the end they prove the faithfulness of their Master and challenge their own day to take their God seriously. Their stories are an encouragement to the next generation as they in turn join the ranks of that “great cloud of witnesses” who cheer us on in the life of faith. Henry W. Frost bore eloquent testimony to his generation that God was willing to bear the responsibility for a surrendered life. What Hudson Taylor was to England, Henry Frost was to North America. His strength of faith and character gave stability to the fledgling North American branch of the China Inland Mission. It has been said that courage is the power to let go of the familiar. If that is the case, the life of Henry Frost and his leadership of the North American China Inland Mission will be the most courageous biography you have ever read.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787209636

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9781787209633

Dynamic Governance: Embedding Culture, Capabilities And Change In Singapore (English Version)

By: Boon Siong Neo,Geraldine Chen

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Dynamic Governance: Embedding Culture, Capabilities And Change In Singapore (English Version)

By: Boon Siong Neo,Geraldine Chen

In a world of uncertainty and change, current achievements are no guarantee for future survival. Even if the initial chosen set of principles, policies and practices are good, static efficiency and governance would eventually lead to stagnation and decay. No amount of careful planning can assure a government of continual relevance and effectiveness if there is no capacity for learning, innovation and change in the face of ever new challenges in a volatile and unpredictable global environment.This book provides an in-depth look at dynamic governance, the key to success in a world of rapid, increasing globalization and unrelenting technological advancements. If bureaucratic public institutions can evolve and embed the culture and capabilities that enable continuous learning and change, their contributions to a country's socio-economic progress and prosperity would be enormous. The lessons from their efforts in institutionalizing culture, capabilities and change could provide meaningful and valuable insights for transforming organizations in other contexts.

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World Scientific

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9814475408

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Popular Chinese Fables (2010 Edition - EPUB)

By: Wu Jingyu,Geraldine Chay

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Popular Chinese Fables (2010 Edition - EPUB)

By: Wu Jingyu,Geraldine Chay

One of the earliest literary works of mankind is in the form of fables. Bedside stories told to children by mothers or grannies contained a great deal of fables. Fables are made up of amusing anecdotes which are interesting, educational, thought-provoking, delightful and enjoyable to people of all ages. Ancient these fables may seem, but when they are summarised into their pithy titles, they become idioms of common usage among the people even to these modern days. This book contains more than 70 Chinese fables that have been handed down from ancient times, told with lively comic illustrations by Chinese cartoonist Tian Hengyu who is renowned for his expressive illustrations with crisp and clear-cut lines. You are sure to be amused as you go through all these ancient stories and you will also be amazed by the subtlety and succinctness of meaning conveyed by them.

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Asiapac Books Pte Ltd

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9812296778

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Clinical Guidelines for Advanced Practice Nursing

By: Geraldine M. Collins-Bride,JoAnne M. Saxe,Karen G. Duderstadt,Rebekah Kaplan

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Clinical Guidelines for Advanced Practice Nursing

By: Geraldine M. Collins-Bride,JoAnne M. Saxe,Karen G. Duderstadt,Rebekah Kaplan

Clinical Guidelines for Advanced Practice Nursing: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Third Edition is an accessible and practical reference designed to help nurses and students with daily clinical decision making. Written in collaboration with certified nurse midwives, clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners, nutritionists, pharmacists, and physicians, it fosters a team approach to health care. Divided into four areas—Pediatrics, Gynecology, Obstetrics, and, Adult General Medicine—and following a lifespan approach, it utilizes the S-O-A-P (Subjective-Objective-Assessment-Plan) format. Additionally, the authors explore complex chronic disease management, health promotion across the lifespan, and professional and legal issues such as reimbursement, billing, and the legal scope of practice. The Third Edition has a keen focus on gerontology to accommodate the AGNP specialty and to better assist the student or clinician in caring for the aging population. The authors follow the across the life span approach and focus on common complete disorders. Certain chapters have been revised and new chapters have been added which include:Health Maintenance for Older Adults; Frailty; Common Gerontology Syndromes; Cancer Survivorship; Lipid Disorders; Acne (pediatrics section). Please note that the 2016 CDC Guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain in the United States were not yet available at the time the authors were updating the Third Edition. See the Instructor Resources tab to read a note from the authors about their recommendations for resources around these guidelines.

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1284123022

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The Global Middle Ages

An Introduction

By: Geraldine Heng

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An Introduction

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England and the Jews

How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West

By: Geraldine Heng

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How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West

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Book's by Geraldine Heng

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

Empire of Magic

Empire of Magic

Empire of Magic

Empire of Magic

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

The Global Middle Ages

The Global Middle Ages

England and the Jews

England and the Jews

“By Faith”

“By Faith”

Dynamic Governance: Embedding Culture, Capabilities And Change In Singapore (English Version)

Dynamic Governance: Embedding Culture, Capabilities And Change In Singapore (English Version)

Popular Chinese Fables (2010 Edition - EPUB)

Popular Chinese Fables (2010 Edition - EPUB)

Clinical Guidelines for Advanced Practice Nursing

Clinical Guidelines for Advanced Practice Nursing

The Global Middle Ages

The Global Middle Ages

England and the Jews

England and the Jews

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