TY  - MANSCPT
AU  - Jenkins,Earnestine
TI  - A kingly craft: art and leadership in Ethiopia : a social history of art and visual culture in pre-modern Africa 
SN  - 9780761838890 (pbk.) :
AV  - ND3285.7.A1 J46 2008
U1  - ETH 745.6709 Jen 2008 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - University Press of America
KW  - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Shewa Kifle H ager (Ethiopia)
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Ethiopia
KW  - 1490-1889
N1  - 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'
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0804/2007934501.html
ER  -