Jenkins, Earnestine, <br/><br/>
A kingly craft :  art and leadership in Ethiopia : a social history of art and visual culture in pre-modern Africa / 
Earnestine Jenkins. 
 - xviii, 115 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations, map ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/> Revised edition of author's dissertation, Michigan State Univ., 1998. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-110) and index. 
<br/><br/>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'. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0761838899 9780761838890 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007934501 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian--History--18th century.<br/>Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian--History--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Shewa Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia)--Kings and rulers<br/>Shewa Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia)--Social conditions<br/>Shewa Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia)--Intellectual life<br/>Shewa Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia)--History<br/>Ethiopia--History--1490-1889
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ND3285.7.A1  / J46 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>745.6709633