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

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-400) and index.

The stereotyping of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe / Kate Lowe -- The image of Africa and iconography of lip-plated Africans in Pierre Desceliers's world map of 1550 / Jean Michel Massing -- Black Africans in Renaissance Spanish literature / Jeremy Lawrance -- Washing the Ethiopian white : conceptualising black skin in Renaissance England / Anu Korhonen -- Black Africans in Portugal during Cleynaerts's visit (1533-1538) / Jorge Fonseca -- Isabella d'Este and Black African women / Paul H.D. Kaplan -- Images of empire : slaves in the Lisbon household and court of Catherine of Austria / Annemarie Jordan -- Christoph Jamnitzer's 'Moor's Head' : a late Renaissance drinking vessel / Lorenz Seelig -- The trade in Black African slaves in fifteenth-century Florence / Sergio Tognetti -- "La Casa del Negres" : Black African solidarity in late medieval Valencia / Debra Blumenthal -- Free and freed Black Africans in Granada in the time of the Spanish Renaissance / Aurelia Martin Casares -- Black African slaves and freedmen in Portugal during the Renaissance : creating a new pattern of reality / Didier Lahon -- The Catholic Church and the pastroal care of Black Africans in Renaissance Italy / Nelson H. Minnich -- Race and rulership : Alessandro de'Medici, first Medici duke of Florence, 1529-1537 / John K. Brackett -- Juan Latino and his racial difference / Baltasar Fra-Molinero -- Black Africans versus Jews : religious and racial tension in a Portuguese saint's play / T.F. Earle.