Black Africans in Renaissance Europe

Name: Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
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ISBN: 9780521176606

ISBN-10: 0521176603

ISBN-13: 9780521176606

Edition: 2010

Authors: T. F. Earle, K. J. P. Lowe

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Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/18/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 436
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English



Introduction: the black African presence in Renaissance Europe




Conceptualising Black Africans:



The stereotyping of black Africans in Renaissance Europe




The image of Africa and the iconography of lip-plated Africans in Pierre Desceliers's World Map of 1550




Black Africans in Renaissance Spanish literature




Washing the Ethiopian white: conceptualising black skin in Renaissance England




Black Africans in Portugal during Cleynaerts's visit (1533-1538)




Real and Symbolic Black Africans at Court:



Isabella d'Este and black African women




Images of empire: slaves in the Lisbon household and court of Catherine of Austria




Christoph Jamnitzer's 'Moor's Head': a late Renaissance drinking vessel




The Practicalities of Enslavement and Emancipation:



The trade in black African slaves in fifteenth-century Florence




'La Casa dels Negres': black African solidarity in late medieval Valencia




Free and freed black Africans in Granada in the time of the Spanish Renaissance




Black African slaves and freedmen in Portugal during the Renaissance: creating a new pattern of reality




The Catholic Church and the pastoral care of black Africans in Renaissance Italy




Black Africans with European Identities and Profiles:



Race and rulership: Alessandro de' Medici, first Medici duke of Florence, 1529-1537




Juan Latino and his racial difference




Black Africans versus Jews: religious and racial tension in a Portuguese saint's play



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