IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1317: Sovereignty and Kingship in North-East Africa

Sponsor:	Historisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Organiser:	Verena Krebs, Historisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Moderator/Chair:	Felege-Selam Yirga, Department of History, Ohio State University
Paper 1317-a	Let's Spare the Bureaucrats: Did Meroitic Official Titles Survive in Old Nubian? (Language: English) Vincent van Gerven Oei, punctum books, Tirana Index terms: Administration, Language and Literature - Other, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1317-b	King Solomon's Heirs: Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy in Late Medieval Ethiopia (Language: English) Verena Krebs, Historisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Index terms: Administration, Archaeology - Sites, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1317-c	The Fətḥa Nägäśt or Law of Kings: The Adaption of a Foreign Legal Code in Late Medieval Ethiopia (Language: English) David Spielman, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Other, Law
Abstract	This session looks at how structures of power, administration and sovereignty were constituted and produced in medieval Christian Nubia and the late medieval Solomonic Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, drawing from examples of Old Nubian bureaucracy, Solomonic diplomacy and church-building activity and the adoption and adaption of a law code between Coptic Egypt and Ethiopia.