A kingly craft : art and leadership in Ethiopia : a social history of art and visual culture in pre-modern Africa / Earnestine Jenkins.
Material type:
TextPublication details: Lanham : University Press of America, c2008Description: xviii, 115 p., [28] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cmISBN: 9780761838890 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0761838899 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): 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 -- 1490-1889LOC classification: ND3285.7 | .A1J46 2008Online resources: Table of contents | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hard Covered Materials
|
MACHAKOS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Technical section | ND3285.7 .A1J46 2008 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 29566 |
Browsing MACHAKOS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY shelves, Shelving location: Technical section Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
| No cover image available |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
| ND 3035 .P4W45 1994 The gift is small the love is great/ | ND3128 .O44 1992 Anglo-Saxon textual illustration : | ND3241 .S85 1994 Illustrated poetry and epic images : | ND3285.7 .A1J46 2008 A kingly craft : | NE543.3 .I55R93 2007 Cape Dorset prints, a retrospective : | NE 642 .T74A4 2010 Julian Trevelyan : | NE 659 .I6B36 2010 Michelangelo in print: |
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'.
There are no comments on this title.