A kingly craft : art and leadership in Ethiopia : a social history of art and visual culture in pre-modern Africa /
Jenkins, Earnestine.
A kingly craft : art and leadership in Ethiopia : a social history of art and visual culture in pre-modern Africa / Earnestine Jenkins. - Lanham : University Press of America, c2008. - xviii, 115 p., : ill., map ; 23 cm.
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'
9780761838890 (pbk.) : Đ18.95 0761838899 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007934501
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian--History--18th century.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian--History--19th century.
Shewa Kifle H ager (Ethiopia)--Kings and rulers.
Shewa Kifle H ager (Ethiopia)--Social conditions.
Shewa Kifle H ager (Ethiopia)--Intellectual life.
Shewa Kifle H ager (Ethiopia)--History.
Ethiopia--History--1490-1889.
ND3285.7.A1 / J46 2008
ETH 745.6709 Jen 2008
A kingly craft : art and leadership in Ethiopia : a social history of art and visual culture in pre-modern Africa / Earnestine Jenkins. - Lanham : University Press of America, c2008. - xviii, 115 p., : ill., map ; 23 cm.
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'
9780761838890 (pbk.) : Đ18.95 0761838899 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007934501
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian--History--18th century.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian--History--19th century.
Shewa Kifle H ager (Ethiopia)--Kings and rulers.
Shewa Kifle H ager (Ethiopia)--Social conditions.
Shewa Kifle H ager (Ethiopia)--Intellectual life.
Shewa Kifle H ager (Ethiopia)--History.
Ethiopia--History--1490-1889.
ND3285.7.A1 / J46 2008
ETH 745.6709 Jen 2008