IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1252: Medieval Ethiopia, III: Religious Material Culture in Ethiopia
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
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| Organisers: | Meseret Oldjira, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University Adam Simmons, Department of History, Lancaster University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Verena Krebs, Historisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| Paper 1252-a | Ethiopia at the Crossroads: The African Art of a Christian Nation (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Language and Literature - Other |
| Paper 1252-b | Evangelist Portraits in Ethiopic Gospel Books (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Language and Literature - Other |
| Paper 1252-c | On the Shape of the Lower End of Ethiopian Hand and Processional Crosses: A Tentative Interpretation of the Lower End of the Vertical Beam and Its Comparison to Armenian Khatshk'ars (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - General, Language and Literature - Other |
| 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 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. |