After Death, Her Face Turned White: Blackness, Whiteness, and Sanctity in the Early Modern Hispanic World.
In the early modern period, devotion to black saints began to spread throughout the Catholic World. First envisioned as a tool for the conversion of newly baptized black slaves, the cults of black saints spread rapidly throughout Iberia and the Americas. This article examines hagiographies written b...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 121; no. 3; pp. 726 - 755 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2016
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