IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 123: Reclaiming the Middle Ages for Africa, I: From Nubia to Ethiopia
Monday 2 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
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| Organisers: | Vincent van Gerven Oei, punctum books, Tirana Meseret Oldjira, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Adam Simmons, Department of History, Lancaster University |
| Paper 123-a | The Memories of Byzantium as Preserved in Nubia's Political Ideology after the 7th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Other |
| Paper 123-b | For Sale: Old Nubian Land Sales and What They Tell Us about Nubian Medieval Economy (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Economics - Urban, Language and Literature - Other, Law |
| Paper 123-c | Early Pan-African Biblical Projects: New Perspectives on Solomon, Sheba, and the Ethiopian 14th-Century Text Kəbrä Nägäst (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Other, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | Africa has always been a nexus of trade routes, its history entangled with the continents that surround it: Europe, Asia, and America. These connections and interactions, whether productive or brutal, have been reasonably well documented for the classical period as well as from the onset of modern colonialism, but a chronological blank spot lingers on our historical memory. The papers in these five sessions aim to recover parts of our collective memory loss, covering topics such as the Byzantine influence on Nubia, Ethiopian Jews, and the golden age of scholarship in Timbuktu. |