Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
By: edited by T.F. Earle and K.J.P. Lowe
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780521176606
Subjects: Blacks; Ethnic relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-400) and index.
Table of contents: title: The stereotyping of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe / Kate Lowe; title: The image of Africa and iconography of lip-plated Africans in Pierre Desceliers's world map of 1550 / Jean Michel Massing; title: Black Africans in Renaissance Spanish literature / Jeremy Lawrance; title: Washing the Ethiopian white : conceptualising black skin in Renaissance England / Anu Korhonen; title: Black Africans in Portugal during Cleynaerts's visit (1533-1538) / Jorge Fonseca; title: Isabella d'Este and Black African women / Paul H.D. Kaplan; title: Images of empire : slaves in the Lisbon household and court of Catherine of Austria / Annemarie Jordan; title: Christoph Jamnitzer's 'Moor's Head' : a late Renaissance drinking vessel / Lorenz Seelig; title: The trade in Black African slaves in fifteenth-century Florence / Sergio Tognetti; title: "La Casa del Negres" : Black African solidarity in late medieval Valencia / Debra Blumenthal; title: Free and freed Black Africans in Granada in the time of the Spanish Renaissance / Aurelia Martin Casares; title: Black African slaves and freedmen in Portugal during the Renaissance : creating a new pattern of reality / Didier Lahon; title: The Catholic Church and the pastroal care of Black Africans in Renaissance Italy / Nelson H. Minnich; title: Race and rulership : Alessandro de'Medici, first Medici duke of Florence, 1529-1537 / John K. Brackett; title: Juan Latino and his racial difference / Baltasar Fra-Molinero; title: Black Africans versus Jews : religious and racial tension in a Portuguese saint's play / T.F. Earle.