This collection makes available for the first time a rich archive of materials that illuminate the history of racial thought and practices in sixteenth and seve

The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly

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Women, `Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period is an extraordinarily comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of one of the most neglected areas in cur

(1) Essays on terms and concepts that capture the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in early modern England. (2) Wide-ranging