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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.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham : University Press of America, c2008.Description: xviii, 115 p., : ill., map ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780761838890 (pbk.) :
  • 0761838899 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ETH 745.6709 Jen 2008 22
LOC classification:
  • ND3285.7.A1 J46 2008
Online resources:
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'
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ETHIOPIAN COLLECTION ETHIOPIAN COLLECTION Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology Library Available at Circulation Section ETH 745.6709 Jen 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 14838

Rev. ed. of author's dissertation, Michigan State Univ., 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 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'

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