Black Africans in Renaissance EuropeT. F. Earle, K. J. P. Lowe This book, first published in 2005, opens up the much neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the view of the Catholic Church, and from writers of African descent to black African 'criminality'. The main purpose of the collection is to show the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by firmly held preconceptions relating to the African continent and its inhabitants. Of enormous importance for both European and American history, this book mixes empirical material and theoretical approaches, and addresses such issues as stereotypes, changing black African identity, and cultural representation in art and literature. |
Contents
The black African presence in Renaissance Europe | 1 |
The stereotyping of black Africans in Renaissance Europe | 17 |
The image of Africa and the iconography of lipplated Africans in Pierre Descelierss World Map of 1550 | 48 |
Black Africans in Renaissance Spanish literature | 70 |
Washing the Ethiopian white conceptualising black skin in Renaissance England | 94 |
Black Africans in Portugal during Cleynaertss visit 15331538 | 113 |
Isabella dEste and black African women | 125 |
Images of empire slaves in the Lisbon household and court of Catherine of Austria | 155 |
La Casa dels Negres black African solidarity in late medieval Valencia | 225 |
Free and freed black Africans in Granada in the time of the Spanish Renaissance | 247 |
Black African slaves and freedmen in Portugal during the Renaissance creating a new pattern of reality | 261 |
The Catholic Church and the pastoral care of black Africans in Renaissance Italy | 280 |
Race and rulership Alessandro de Medici first Medici duke of Florence 15291537 | 303 |
Juan Latino and his racial difference | 326 |
Black Africans versus Jews religious and racial tension in a Portuguese saints play | 345 |
Bibliography | 361 |
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