Cover
Title Page
Contents Page
Notes to the Reader
Contributors
Introduction: Balthazar’s Blackness: Equally Noble, Equally Foreign
AN AFRICAN KING IN ART AND LEGEND
Geographies of the Black Magus Tradition
Why Black? The Meanings of Epidermal Race in the European Middle Ages
Color, Race, and Religion in Spain: Cantigas de Santa Maria
CONNECTING CONTINENTS THROUGH TRADE AND DIPLOMACY
African Kingship: Real and Imagined
Connective Threads: Nubian Trade, Dignitaries, and Display
Ethiopian Monks in Europe
BLACK AFRICANS AND THE PARADOX OF THE RENAISSANCE
The Black Magus in the Public Sphere
A Black Magus Comes to Rome from Kongo
The Black Magus in “We Three Kings of Orient Are”
EPILOGUE
Afterword: Curating Black History with Black Audiences in Mind
Acknowledgments
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
Copyright Page
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