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Niebrzydowski, Sue. "The Sultana and Her Sisters: Black Women in the British Isles Before 1530." Women’s History Review 10, no. 2 (2001): 187–210.
Examines the representation of Black women in medieval England prior to 1530. The essay draws upon travelogues, scriptural commentary, visual arts, medical treatises, and surrounding materials to demonstrate how gendered Black bodies were significant loci of theorization for otherness prior to the Elizabethan forms of institutionalized slavery. It engages conversations in Blackness, gender studies, and the development of medieval identities.
