Miranda Kaufmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miranda Kaufmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miranda |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaufmann |
| SIGNATURE | KAUFMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Church of Christ |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black Jokes, white humour: Africans in English caricature, 1769–1819
Black Jokes, white humour: Africans in English caricature, 1769–1819." Slavery & Abolition, 39(4), pp. 768–769
Making the Beast with two Backs” – Interracial Relationships in Early Modern England
Shakespeare's tragedy of Othello and Desdemona has long attracted critics to consider the issues of interracial relationships and miscegenation in early modern England. More recently, other black characters have been found in Renaissance literature and an African presence in 16th and 17th century England has been demonstrated from archival sources. This article gives an overview of these developments and their implications for the study of interr…
Sir Pedro Negro: What Colour was His Skin
IN a footnote to a recent article,1 Gustav Ungerer concludes that ‘the career of the Spanish mercenary Pedro Negro under king Henry VIII is quite irrelevant to the study of the ideological conception of Othello’ because none of the available contemporary records ‘mentions that Sir Peter Negro was black’. He argues that Negro was more likely to belong to a Genoese family of that name that had settled in Spain and Portugal in the course of the four…
Caspar Van Senden, Sir Thomas Sherley and the 'Blackamoor' project
This article investigates the project of Caspar Van Senden, a Lubeck merchant, and his patron Sir Thomas Sherley, who sought crown permission to collect ‘negars and blackamoores’ in England and sell them in Lisbon. By examining the reports of Robert Cecil's agent in Lisbon and letters written to Cecil by Van Senden and Sherley, it explains how unsuccessful their project was, and how it may have had political as well as financial motivation. It al…
Making the Beast with two Backs” – Interracial Relationships in Early Modern England
Shakespeare's tragedy of Othello and Desdemona has long attracted critics to consider the issues of interracial relationships and miscegenation in early modern England. More recently, other black characters have been found in Renaissance literature and an African presence in 16th and 17th century England has been demonstrated from archival sources. This article gives an overview of these developments and their implications for the study of interr…
Sir Pedro Negro: What Colour was His Skin
IN a footnote to a recent article,1 Gustav Ungerer concludes that ‘the career of the Spanish mercenary Pedro Negro under king Henry VIII is quite irrelevant to the study of the ideological conception of Othello’ because none of the available contemporary records ‘mentions that Sir Peter Negro was black’. He argues that Negro was more likely to belong to a Genoese family of that name that had settled in Spain and Portugal in the course of the four…
Caspar Van Senden, Sir Thomas Sherley and the 'Blackamoor' project
This article investigates the project of Caspar Van Senden, a Lubeck merchant, and his patron Sir Thomas Sherley, who sought crown permission to collect ‘negars and blackamoores’ in England and sell them in Lisbon. By examining the reports of Robert Cecil's agent in Lisbon and letters written to Cecil by Van Senden and Sherley, it explains how unsuccessful their project was, and how it may have had political as well as financial motivation. It al…
Making the Beast with two Backs” – Interracial Relationships in Early Modern England
Shakespeare's tragedy of Othello and Desdemona has long attracted critics to consider the issues of interracial relationships and miscegenation in early modern England. More recently, other black characters have been found in Renaissance literature and an African presence in 16th and 17th century England has been demonstrated from archival sources. This article gives an overview of these developments and their implications for the study of interr…
Black Jokes, white humour: Africans in English caricature, 1769–1819
Black Jokes, white humour: Africans in English caricature, 1769–1819." Slavery & Abolition, 39(4), pp. 768–769
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · White (mutation (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works)