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 Pierr e Desceliers's world map of 1550 / Jean Michel Massing -- Black African s in Renaissance Spanish literature / Jeremy Lawrance -- Washing the Et hiopian 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 / Pau l 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 / Ser gio 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 Casa res -- Black African slaves and freedmen in Portugal during the Renaiss ance : 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 M edici 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.