{"id":63820,"date":"2022-05-13T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63820"},"modified":"2022-05-13T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:43:16","slug":"impact-of-the-forgotten-black-europeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63820","title":{"rendered":"Impact of the forgotten black Europeans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Impact of the forgotten black Europeans<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Islington Tribune<\/a>
\nLondon, United Kingdom
\n2022-05-12<\/p>\n

Angela Cobbinah<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Chevalier de St George<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scholars, poets, writers, composers… a new book focuses on the wide influence of Africa<\/a> abroad, writes Angela Cobbinah<\/em><\/p>\n

ALESSANDRO de Medici, Duke of Florence<\/a>, virtuoso 18th-century French violinist and composer Joseph Bologne<\/a> and 1922 world light heavyweight boxing champion Battling Siki<\/a> from France<\/a> via Senegal<\/a> are probably people we know little about, if at all.<\/p>\n

They are part of a forgotten European past explored by Olivette Otele<\/a> in her scholarly book, African Europeans<\/em><\/a>, which travels through time to reveal how trade, war, slavery and colonialism resulted in a black presence in Europe<\/a> from as far back as the third century.<\/p>\n

This is where Otele, professor of the history and memory of slavery at Bristol University, kicks off, telling the story of St Maurice<\/a>, Egyptian leader of a Roman legion who was famously executed for refusing to crush a Christian revolt in Gaul<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Celebrated as a martyr across Germany<\/a>, he is clearly represented as an African in a statue at Magdeburg Cathedral<\/a> and other church iconography.<\/p>\n

Black saints and Madonnas<\/a> appeared across Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries, perhaps Otele speculates, to symbolise the transformative power of the Catholic Church in converting those it considered heathen…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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