A kingly craft : art and leadership in Ethiopia : a social history of art and visual culture in pre-modern Africa / Earnestine Jenkins.
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TextPublisher: Lanham : University Press of America, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xviii, 115 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0761838899
- 9780761838890
- 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
- 745.6709633 22
- ND3285.7.A1 J46 2008
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Revised edition of author's dissertation, Michigan State Univ., 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-110) and index.
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 eighteenth 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'.
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