Medieval Ethiopian Kingship Craft And Diplomacy With Latin Europe
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Author |
: Verena Krebs |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2021-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030649340 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030649342 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe by : Verena Krebs
This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa. Drawing on sources from Europe, Ethiopia, and Egypt, it examines the Ethiopian kings’ motivations for sending out their missions in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries – and argues that a desire to acquire religious treasures and foreign artisans drove this early intercontinental diplomacy. Moreover, the Ethiopian initiation of contacts with the distant Christian sphere of Latin Europe appears to have been intimately connected to a local political agenda of building monumental ecclesiastical architecture in the North-East African highlands, and asserted the Ethiopian rulers’ claim of universal kingship and rightful descent from the biblical king Solomon. Shedding new light on the self-identity of a late medieval African dynasty at the height of its power, this book challenges conventional narratives of African-European encounters on the eve of the so-called ‘Age of Exploration'.
Author |
: Verena Krebs |
Publisher |
: Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2022-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3030649369 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783030649364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe by : Verena Krebs
This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa. Drawing on sources from Europe, Ethiopia, and Egypt, it examines the Ethiopian kings’ motivations for sending out their missions in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries – and argues that a desire to acquire religious treasures and foreign artisans drove this early intercontinental diplomacy. Moreover, the Ethiopian initiation of contacts with the distant Christian sphere of Latin Europe appears to have been intimately connected to a local political agenda of building monumental ecclesiastical architecture in the North-East African highlands, and asserted the Ethiopian rulers’ claim of universal kingship and rightful descent from the biblical king Solomon. Shedding new light on the self-identity of a late medieval African dynasty at the height of its power, this book challenges conventional narratives of African-European encounters on the eve of the so-called ‘Age of Exploration'.
Author |
: Galawdewos |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 544 |
Release |
: 2015-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691164212 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691164215 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros by : Galawdewos
A "geadl" or hagiography, originally written by Gealawdewos thirty years after the subject's death, in 1672-1673. Translated from multiple manuscripts and versions.
Author |
: Samantha Kelly |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 606 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9004419586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004419582 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea by : Samantha Kelly
"A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea introduces readers to current research on major topics in the history and cultures of the Ethiopian-Eritrean region from the seventh century to the mid-sixteenth, with insights into foundational late-antique developments where appropriate. Multiconfessional in scope, it includes in its purview both the Christian kingdom and the Islamic and local-religious societies that have attracted increasing attention in recent decades, tracing their internal features, interrelations, and imbrication in broader networks stretching from Egypt and Yemen to Europe and India. Utilizing diverse source types and methodologies, its fifteen essays offer an up-to-date overview of the subject for students and nonspecialists, and are rich in material for researchers. Contributors are Alessandro Bausi, Claire Bosc-Tiessé, Antonella Brita, Amélie Chekroun, Marie-Laure Derat, Deresse Ayenachew, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Emmanuel Fritsch, Alessandro Gori, Habtemichael Kidane, Margaux Herman, Bertrand Hirsch, Samantha Kelly, Gianfrancesco Lusini, Denis Nosnitsin, and Anaïs Wion"--
Author |
: Robert Trent Vinson |
Publisher |
: Ohio University Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2012-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780821444054 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0821444050 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Americans Are Coming! by : Robert Trent Vinson
For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians—established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American antiapartheid movements. Though African Americans suffered under Jim Crow racial discrimination, oppressed Africans saw African Americans as free people who had risen from slavery to success and were role models and potential liberators. Many African Americans, regarded initially by the South African government as “honorary whites” exempt from segregation, also saw their activities in South Africa as a divinely ordained mission to establish “Africa for Africans,” liberated from European empires. The Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, the largest black-led movement with two million members and supporters in forty-three countries at its height in the early 1920s, was the most anticipated source of liberation. Though these liberation prophecies went unfulfilled, black South Africans continued to view African Americans as inspirational models and as critical partners in the global antiapartheid struggle. The Americans Are Coming! is a rare case study that places African history and American history in a global context and centers Africa in African Diaspora studies.
Author |
: Brian A. Catlos |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 649 |
Release |
: 2014-03-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521889391 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521889391 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614 by : Brian A. Catlos
An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.
Author |
: Natalie Zemon Davis |
Publisher |
: Walters Art Gallery |
Total Pages |
: 143 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0911886788 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780911886788 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe by : Natalie Zemon Davis
"This publication accompanies the exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, held at the Walters Art Museum from October 14, 2012, to January 21, 2013, and at the Princeton University Art Museum from February 16 to June 9, 2013."
Author |
: Cornelia E. Römer |
Publisher |
: Harrassowitz |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2020-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3447113960 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783447113960 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis News from Texts and Archaeology by : Cornelia E. Römer
News from Texts and Archaeology, edited by Cornelia E. Romer, contains twelve of the important papers given at the 7th Fayoum Symposium in Cairo in October/November 2018, most of them dealing with archaeology, some with texts. They mirror the focus of this 7th Symposium, which for the first time took place in Egypt, and which highlighted the archaeological work recently carried out in the Graeco-Roman Fayoum by Egyptian and international missions. Papers include a presentation of the first Hellenistic gymnasium archaeologically attested in Egypt and excavated by the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo, and a catalogue of the Hellenistic and Roman sculptures which come from a secure provenance in the oasis. One paper traces the history of the water-wheel in Egypt, an invention that changed the landscape radically, and shows the sophistication of water supply in the villages in general. Together with the papers on Greek and Demotic texts found in the Fayoum, they all draw a picture of the multi-cultural society of the Egyptian countryside in the Graeco-Roman period. Of special interest are the three maps attached to the volume as an extra, which show the changing levels of the lake in the north of the oasis through the pharaonic and Ptolemaic/Roman periods.
Author |
: William David Davies |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 766 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521219299 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521219297 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age by : William David Davies
Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 721 |
Release |
: 2020-11-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004426979 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004426973 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice by :
Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice brings together the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies and material culture. Its aim is not only to showcase the range of pioneering work that is currently being done in these areas, but also to provide a model for closer interaction amongst the disciplines constituting this burgeoning field of study. Furthermore, the book provides the rare opportunity to bridge the gap on an institutional level by bringing the academic and curatorial spheres into dialogue. Contributors include: Charles Burnett, Jean-Charles Coulon, Maryam Ekhtiar, Noah Gardiner, Christiane Gruber, Bink Hallum, Francesca Leoni, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Michael Noble, Rachel Parikh, Liana Saif, Maria Subtelny, Farouk Yahya, and Travis Zadeh.