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Medieval Ethiopian kingship, craft, and diplomacy with Latin Europe / Verena Krebs.
Van Pelt Library DT382.5.E85 K74 2021
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krebs, Verena, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kings and rulers.
- History.
- International relations.
- Ethiopia--Foreign relations--Europe.
- Ethiopia.
- Europe--Foreign relations--Ethiopia.
- Europe.
- Ethiopia--Kings and rulers--History--To 1500.
- Ethiopia--History--To 1490.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- Historiography, Sources and the Spectre ofPrester John
- Structure
- 2. All the King's Treasures
- Relics, Garments and Craftsmen
- Ethiopian Missions to Italy at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century
- Strangers in Ethiopia, ca. 1398/1399-1401
- A Venetian Summer, 1402
- King Dawit's Treasures, 1402-1403
- Fact and Fiction in Rome, 1403-1404
- 5. Roads, Merchants and `the Good Wine': Venetians in Ethiopia in the Early Fifteenth Century
- Lost in Translation at the Council of Constance, 1416-1418
- Chapter Conclusion
- 3. The Sons of Da wit
- First Contacts with the Kingdom of Aragon
- An Interfaith Embassy to Valencia, 1427-1428
- Spending a Fortune to Request Aid from Ethiopia, May 1428
- Fear and Intrigue in Cairo, Early 1429
- Five Ethiopian Pilgrims Walk Into a War, Summer 1430
- Swapping Allegiances from France to Ethiopia, 1432/1433
- The Abbot, the nagus' and the Council of Florence, 1439-1444
- Ethiopia, Rome and Aragon
- And the Fall of Constantinople
- 4. The Rule of the Regents
- Rome, Ethiopia, Jerusalem, and Two Very Different Men from Imola, 1478-1484
- An Ethiopian Mission to Cairo and a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Mid-1480-Spring 1481
- An Ethiopian Mission to the Heart of Latin Christendom, 1481-1482
- A Minuscule Franciscan Mission in Ethiopia, 1480-1484/85
- The Lord and the Letter-Carrier
- Ethiopian Performative Diplomacy and Latin Missionary Zeal in the Early 1480s
- Ethiopia and Portugal, 1487-1527
- Early Portuguese Emissaries to Ethiopia
- 3leni's Mission to Portugal, 1508-1509
- Ethiopian Delegates to Portugal (1509-1515)
- The Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia and ase Labnd Ddngdl's Last Peacetime Mission (1520-1527)
- 5. King Solomon's Heirs
- Technologists, Arms, and Alliances? Dismantling a Scholarship Narrative
- A Christian Ethiopian Empire? The Realm of the `Builder Kings'
- Monasticism and Solomonic Rule
- Royal Foundations Proclaiming a Christian Dominion
- Ethiopian Churches of Italian Appearance?
- Through a Glass, Darkly: Textual Evidence and Archaeological Remains
- Diplomatic Requests Re-examined
- Builders, Carpenters, Stonemasons, Metalworkers and Painters
- The Dazzling Splendour of the World: Religious Material Culture
- Foreign Craftsmanship, Royal Foundations, and Diplomacy
- The Power of Distance and Solomonic Emulation
- Chapter Afterword: The Builder Kings' Realm in Turbulent Times
- 6. Conclusion
- A Brief Glossary of Terms Relating to Ethiopian History.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783030649333
- 3030649334
- OCLC:
- 1202747187
- Publisher Number:
- 99988069661
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