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St. Francis of Assisi before the Sultan of Egypt, detail, from Altarpiece of the Lives of the Virgin and Saint Francis

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Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to...
The second half of the fifteenth century saw the world change in several ways. Some of these changes were spectacular; others, deeper though less visible, foreshadowed economic, social, and political upheavals whose aftershock would be felt clear into the twentieth century. European relations with Africa and Africans became closer and more complex than anything known in the previous ten centuries....
PublisherHarvard University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.153-184
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00138.007

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