A kingly craft : art and leadership in Ethiopia : a social history of art and visual culture in pre-modern Africa - Jenkins, Earnestine (Lanham : University Press of America, 2008)
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'
Rev. ed. of author's dissertation, Michigan State Univ., 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-110) and index.
Keywords: 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.