Black Africans in Renaissance Europe: John Blanke, Henry VIII’s Black Trumpeter, Petitions for a Back Dated Pay Increase

Monday 27 July 2015

John Blanke, Henry VIII’s Black Trumpeter, Petitions for a Back Dated Pay Increase

John Blanke Detail from 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll

My post on Voices of the People on line symposium posts that look to recover the voices of people across a range of geographical and historical contexts principally about early modern England:

John Blanke, Henry VIII’s Black Trumpeter, Petitions for a Back Dated Pay Increase

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Books on BARE

Frank M Snowden, Jr Before Color Prejudice: the Ancient View of Blacks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983
David Northrup, Africa's Discovery of Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002
Earle T.F. and Lowe K. J. P. (2005) Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, Cambridge UniversityPress
eds Ladislas B., Devisse J. and Courtes J.M. (1976), The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II, Part 1, From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood, Menil Foundation,Cambridge, Mass