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A kingly craft: art and leadership in Ethiopia: a social history of art and visual culture in pre-modern Africa

Earnestine Jenkins
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Lanham : University Press of America, [2008]
Copyright:
©2008

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Table of Contents:
  • Eighteenth century political culture in Shewan Province : chiefs, wars, and conquests
  • Shewa's first patron of the arts : Amha Iyasus and his Miracles of Mary manuscript
  • Ruler and saint : Asfa Wassan and holy man, Takla Haymanot : secular themes in late eigtheenth century manuscript painting
  • King Sahle Selassie and the infrastructure of patronage in early nineteenth century Shewa
  • Painting authority : a double portrait, shared power : the 'Queen Mother' and the king
  • Sahle Selassie, iconography, and the ideal king : King David as a model of Christian leadership
  • A 'killer of heathens' and a leader of men : Sahle Selassie, Christian warrior king
  • Duty and leisure : King Sahle Selassie at court
  • On a patriarchal note : painting history and honoring the father in Sahle Selassie's prayer book
  • Coda : the cultural legacy of the 'House of Shewa'.
Author/Creator:
Jenkins, Earnestine
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
A kingly craft: art and leadership in Ethiopia: a social history of art and visual culture in pre-modern Africa [by Jenkins, E.]
Subjects:
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian — History — 18th century
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian — History — 19th century
Shewa Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia) — Kings and rulers
Shewa Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia) — Social conditions
Shewa Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia) — Intellectual life
Shewa Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia) — History
Ethiopia — History — 1490-1889
1490-1899
Kings and rulers
Social conditions
Intellectual life
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian
Ethiopia
Ethiopia — Shewa Kifle Hāger
Genres:
History
General Notes:
Rev. ed. of author's dissertation, Michigan State Univ., 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-110) and index.
Physical Description:
xviii, 115 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Call Numbers:
ND3285.7.A1 J46 2008
ISBNs:
0761838899
9780761838890
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
2007934501
OCLC Numbers:
173807992