IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 1231: Medieval Ethiopia, I: Symbolism, Objects, and Depictions in the Solomonic Period

Wednesday 3 July 2019, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Organiser:	Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Universität Hamburg
Moderator/Chair:	Verena Krebs, Historisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Paper 1231-a	Symbols and Might: Notes on 17th-Century Imperial Administration in Ethiopia (Language: English) Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Universität Hamburg Index terms: Administration, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1231-b	Portraying Good and Evil: The Equestrian Saint Gelawdewos (Claudius) and the Monster Sebetat (Language: English) Dorothea McEwan, Warburg Institute, University of London Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Painting
Paper 1231-c	Visual Representation of Rulers from the Early Solomonic Period (Language: English) Lenka Vrlíková, Faculty of Arts, Masarykova univerzita, Brno Index terms: Art History - Painting, Hagiography
Abstract	Ethiopia has a long history of materiality, both in manuscripts and in paintings. Speakers in this session will highlight changes in materiality through time and place, particularly in depiction. Session I focuses on material display of images through both media. Paper A combines the study of manuscripts and paintings to access the changing materiality of the Miracles of the Virgin Mary. Paper B highlights the changing linguistic terms for offices of state in Ethiopian manuscript culture. Papers C and D analyse Ethiopian paintings to display changing depictions of military equestrian saints and rulers respectively.