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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...

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Publicado en:American Historical Review Vol. 121; no. 3; pp. 726 - 755
Autor principal: ROWE, ERIN KATHLEEN
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2016
Materias:
Hagiography
Race
Religion
Benedict, the Moor, Saint, 1526-1589
De Porres, Martin, Saint
Black Christians
Christian women saints
Human skin color
Church history
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