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The Triumphs of Truth

mediaeval pageant written by Thomas Middleton

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ55642340 ↗
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The Triumphs of Truth was a medieval pageant to honor a British Lord mayor and written circa 1613 by English Renaissance playwright Thomas Middleton. The pageant was credited with first creating the term white people to refer to Europeans.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Triumphs of Truth” is mediaeval pageant written by Thomas Middleton. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Triumphs, Truth and mediaeval, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1613—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Triumphs, Truth and mediaeval is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “The Triumphs of Truth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.