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. 
 - Lanham :  University Press of America,  c2008. 
 - xviii, 115 p., :  ill., map ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Rev. ed. of author's dissertation, Michigan State Univ., 1998. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 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' 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780761838890 (pbk.) :  Đ18.95 0761838899 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<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 H ager (Ethiopia)--Kings and rulers.<br/>Shewa Kifle H ager (Ethiopia)--Social conditions.<br/>Shewa Kifle H ager (Ethiopia)--Intellectual life.<br/>Shewa Kifle H ager (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>ETH 745.6709 Jen 2008