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Introduction K.J.P. Lowe Part I. Conceptualising Black Africans: 1. The stereotyping of black Africans in Renaissance Europe K. J. P. Lowe 2. The lip-plated Africans in Pierre Desceliers's World Map of 1550 Jean Michel Massing 3. Black African slaves and freedmen in Portugal during the Renaissance: creating a new pattern of reality Didier Lahon 4. Washing the Ethiopian white: conceptualising black skin in Renaissance England Anu Korhonen Part II. Real and symbolic black Afircans at court: 5. Isabella d'Este and black African women Paul H.D. Kaplan 6. Images of empire: slaves in the household and court of Catherine of Austria Annemarie Jordan 7. Christoph Jamnitzer's 'moor's head': a late Renaissance drinking vessel Lorenz Seelig 8. Race and rulership: Alessandro de'medici, first Medici duke of Florence, 1529-37 John K. Brackett Part III. Cases studies of black African life in Portugal, Spain and Italy: 9. Black Africans in portugal during Cleynaerts's visit (1533-8) Jorge Fonseca 10. Free and freed black: Africans in the time of the Spanish Renaissance Aurelia Martin Casares 11.The trade in black African slaves in fifteenth-century Florence Sergio Tognetti 12. The Catholic Church and the pastroal care of Black Africans in Renaissance Italy Nelson Minnich Part IV. Changing African identities: black perspectives and culture: 13. La Casa del Negres: black African solidarity in late medieval Valencia Debra Blumenthal 14. Black Africans in Renaissance Spanish literature Jeremy Lawrance 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.