IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 620: Shaping Medieval Africa, Abroad
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Historisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
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| Organiser: | Adam Simmons, Department of History, Lancaster University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Universität Hamburg |
| Paper 620-a | From Centre to Periphery: Nubia's Role Leading to the 15th-Century Latin European Invention of 'Africa' (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Crusades, Language and Literature - Other, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 620-b | Recognition of Rulership: A Comparison of European Narratives of Political Encounters and Diplomacy in West Africa (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Language and Literature - Other, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 620-c | The Ethiopian Illuminations of the 'Book of Revelation' and the 'Life and Death of St John' in British Library, Or 533 (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Other, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session brings together papers from history and art history to trace the connected histories of late Medieval Europe with different realms in North-East and West Africa, focussing on how different kingdoms were imagined and narrated in the Latin West - but also how Ethiopian Art reacted to foreign influences, in turn. |