In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a Black person\'s skin white--or at least that is what happens when a Black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars .
Whitaker examines the rhetorical and theological moves through which blackness and whiteness became metaphors for sin and purity in the English and European Middle Ages--metaphors that guided the development of notions of race in the centuries that fo.
In Black Metaphors , Cord J.
In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a Black person\'s skin white--or at least that is what happens when a Black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars