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    Black Africans in Renaissance Europe / edited by T.F. Earle and K.J.P. Lowe.

    • Title:Black Africans in Renaissance Europe / edited by T.F. Earle and K.J.P. Lowe.
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    • Author/Creator:Earle, T. F. (Thomas Foster)
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Lowe, K. J. P.
    • Published/Created:New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Black people--Europe--History--15th century.
      Black people--Europe--History--16th century.
      Europe--Ethnic relations--History--15th century.
      Europe--Ethnic relations--History--16th century.
    • Description:xvii, 417 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-400) and index.
    • ISBN:0521815827
    • Contents:Introduction : the black African presence in Renaissance Europe / Kate Lowe
      Pt. I. Conceptualising black Africans
      1. stereotyping of black Africans in Renaissance Europe / Kate Lowe
      2. image of Africa and the iconography of lip-plated Africans in Pierre Desceliers's world map of 1550 / Jean Michel Massing
      3. Black Africans in Renaissance Spanish literature / Jeremy Lawrance
      4. Washing the Ethiopian white : conceptualising black skin in Renaissance England / Anu Korhonen
      5. Black Africans in Portugal during Cleynaerts's visit (1533-1538) / Jorge Fonseca
      Pt. II. Real and symbolic black Africans at court
      6. Isabella d'Este and black African women / Paul H. D. Kaplan
      7. Images of empire : slaves in the Lisbon household and court of Catherine of Austria / Annemarie Jordan
      8. Christoph Jamnitzer's 'Moor's head' : a late Renaissance drinking vessel / Lorenz Seelig
      Pt. III. practicalities of enslavement and emancipation
      9. trade in black African slaves in fifteenth-century Florence / Sergio Tognetti
      10. 'La Casa dels Negres' : black African solidarity in late medieval Valencia / Debra Blumenthal
      11. Free and freed black Africans in Granada in the time of the Spanish Renaissance / Aurelia Martin Casares
      12. Black African slaves and freedmen in Portugal during the Renaissance : creating a new pattern of reality / Didier Lahon
      13. Catholic church and the pastoral care of black Africans in Renaissance Italy / Nelson H. Minnich
      Pt. IV. Black Africans with European identities and profiles
      14. Race and rulership : Alessandro de' Medici, first Medici duke of Florence, 1529-1537 / John K. Brackett
      15. Juan Latino and his racial difference / Baltasar Fra-Molinero
      16. Black Africans versus Jews : religious and racial tension in a Portuguese saint's play / T. F. Earle.
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