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

The stereotyping of black Africans in Renaissance Europe / K. J. P. Lowe -- The image of Africa and iconography of lip-plated Africans in Pierre Desceliers's World Map of 1550 / Jean Michel Massing -- Black African slaves in Renaissance Spanish literature / Jeremy Lawrence -- 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 -- Race and rulership: Alessandro de'medici, first Medici duke of Florence, 1529-37 / John K. Brackett -- Black Africans in portugal during Cleynaerts's visit (1533-8) / Jorge Fonseca -- Free and freed black: Africans in the time of the Spanish Renaissance / Aurelia Martin Casares -- The trade in black African slaves in fifteenth-century / Florence Sergio Tognetti -- The Catholic Church and the pastroal care of Black Africans in Renaissance Italy / Nelson Minnich -- La Casa del Negres: black African solidarity in late medieval Valencia / Debra Blumenthal -- Black Africans in Renaissance Spanish literature / Jeremy Lawrance -- 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. Table of contents

Part I.Conceptualizing black Africans;
Part II.Real and symbolic black Africans at court;
Part III.The Practicalities of Enslavement and Emancipation;
Part IV.Black Africans with European identities and profiles.