| List of illustrations | page vii | ||
| List of contributors | xii | ||
| Acknowledgements | xiv | ||
| Notes on the text | xv | ||
| Introduction: The black African presence in Renaissance Europe | 1 | ||
| KATE LOWE | |||
| PART I CONCEPTUALISING BLACK AFRICANS | |||
| 1 | The stereotyping of black Africans in Renaissance Europe | 17 | |
| KATE LOWE | |||
| 2 | The image of Africa and the iconography of lip-plated Africans in Pierre Desceliers’s World Map of 1550 | 48 | |
| JEAN MICHEL MASSING | |||
| 3 | Black Africans in Renaissance Spanish literature | 70 | |
| JEREMY LAWRANCE | |||
| 4 | Washing the Ethiopian white: conceptualising black skin in Renaissance England | 94 | |
| ANU KORHONEN | |||
| 5 | Black Africans in Portugal during Cleynaerts’s visit (1533–1538) | 113 | |
| JORGE FONSECA | |||
| PART II REAL AND SYMBOLIC BLACK AFRICANS AT COURT | |||
| 6 | Isabella d’Este and black African women | 125 | |
| PAUL H. D. KAPLAN | |||
| 7 | Images of empire: slaves in the Lisbon household and court of Catherine of Austria | 155 | |
| ANNEMARIE JORDAN | |||
| 8 | Christoph Jamnitzer’s ‘Moor’s Head’: a late Renaissance drinking vessel | 181 | |
| LORENZ SEELIG | |||
| PART III THE PRACTICALITIES OF ENSLAVEMENT AND EMANCIPATION | |||
| 9 | The trade in black African slaves in fifteenth-century Florence | 213 | |
| SERGIO TOGNETTI | |||
| 10 | ‘La Casa dels Negres’: black African solidarity in late medieval Valencia | 225 | |
| DEBRA BLUMENTHAL | |||
| 11 | Free and freed black Africans in Granada in the time of the Spanish Renaissance | 247 | |
| AURELIA MARTÍN CASARES | |||
| 12 | Black African slaves and freedmen in Portugal during the Renaissance: creating a new pattern of reality | 261 | |
| DIDIER LAHON | |||
| 13 | The Catholic Church and the pastoral care of black Africans in Renaissance Italy | 280 | |
| NELSON H. MINNICH | |||
| PART IV BLACK AFRICANS WITH EUROPEAN IDENTITIES AND PROFILES | |||
| 14 | Race and rulership: Alessandro de’ Medici, first Medici duke of Florence, 1529–1537 | 303 | |
| JOHN K. BRACKETT | |||
| 15 | Juan Latino and his racial difference | 326 | |
| BALTASAR FRA-MOLINERO | |||
| 16 | Black Africans versus Jews: religious and racial tension in a Portuguese saint’s play | 345 | |
| T. F. EARLE | |||
| Bibliography | 361 | ||
| Index | 401 | ||