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Medieval Ethiopian kingship, craft, and diplomacy with Latin Europe / Verena Krebs.

Van Pelt Library DT382.5.E85 K74 2021
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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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