Black Africans in Renaissance Europe

Abstract

Introduction: the black African presence in Renaissance Europe Kate Lowe Part I. Conceptualising Black Africans: 1. The stereotyping of black Africans in Renaissance Europe Kate Lowe 2. The 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 (1533-8) Jorge Fonseca Part 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 Part III. The Practicalities of Enslavement and Emancipation: 9. The 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. The Catholic Church and the pastoral care of black Africans in Renaissance Italy Nelson H. Minnich Part IV. Black Africans with European Identities and Profiles: 14. Race and rulership: Alessandro de' Medici, first Medici duke of Florence, 1529-37 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 Bibliography Index.