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Author : Ruth Plant (M. Litt.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Architecture of the Tigre, Ethiopia written by Ruth Plant (M. Litt.) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Briggs
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841622842
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Ethiopia written by Philip Briggs and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2009 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the world taps its feet, Ethiopia breakdances with its shoulders. This is an uplifting, inspirational country which confounds expectations. It’s no featureless desert but a land of majestic landscapes surrounding a vast, fertile plateau. The rock-hewn churches in its medieval capital, Lalibela, are regarded by many as the eighth wonder of the world. Its people are welcoming, proud and besotted by their own culture and history. Bradt’s Ethiopia is the most thorough guide available to this country rich in culture, history and dramatic scenery, and has been highly praised by both travel press and readers. ‘Thorough and reassuring, it provides all the practical and background information to make readers leap from their armchairs and visit this vast, magical country’ The Daily Telegraph (UK)
Author : Manuel João Ramos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351887777
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art written by Manuel João Ramos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rural plateaux of northern Ethiopia, one can still find scattered ruins of monumental buildings that are evidently alien to the country's ancient architectural tradition. This little-known and rarely studied architectural heritage is a silent witness to a fascinating if equivocal cultural encounter that took place in the 16th-17th centuries between Catholic Europeans and Orthodox Ethiopians. The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art presents a selection of papers derived from the 5th Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art, which for the first time systematically approached this heritage. The book explores the enduring impact of this encounter on the artistic, religious and political life of Ethiopia, an impact that has not been readily acknowledged, not least because the public conversion of the early 17th-century Emperor Susïnyus to Catholicism resulted in a bloody civil war shrouded in religious intolerance. Bringing together work by key researchers in the field, these studies open up a particularly rich period in the history of Ethiopia and cast new light on the complexities of cultural and religious (mis)encounters between Africa and Europe.
Author : Mario di Salvo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838609318
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)
Download or read book The Basilicas of Ethiopia written by Mario di Salvo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basilica is symbolic of the history of Christianity in Ethiopia. Aizan, the first Christian king of the Aksumite empire was responsible for the creation of the large, five-aisled church of M?ry?m ??yon, sadly destroyed in 1535, and since then many hundreds of basilicas have been built in Ethiopia, many, including the UNESCO World Heritage site of Lalibela, literally 'hewn from the rock'. In this book, architectural historian and architect Mario di Salvo considers the unique architectural features of Ethiopia's basilicas and explains how they developed over time. Featuring almost 200 colour illustrations, this book is an attractive and comprehensive guide to some of Ethiopia's most inspiring religious buildings.
Author : Victor M. Fernández
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004324690
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of the Jesuit Missions in Ethiopia (1557–1632) written by Victor M. Fernández and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest and most ambitious projects carried out by the Society of Jesus was the mission to the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, which ran from 1557 to 1632. In about 1621, crucial figures in the Ethiopian Solomonid monarchy, including King Susenyos, were converted to Catholicism and up to 1632 imposing missionary churches, residences, and royal structures were built. This book studies for the first time in a comprehensive manner the missionary architecture built by the joint work of Jesuit padres, Ethiopian and Indian masons, and royal Ethiopian patrons. The work gives ample archaeological, architectonic, and historical descriptions of the ten extant sites known to date and includes hypotheses on hitherto unexplored or lesser known structures.
Author : Christine Chaillot
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643803435
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church written by Christine Chaillot and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine Chaillot’s new book, The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church: Faith and Spirituality, presents a topic that is little – if at all – known outside Ethiopia, even in Christian circles. Moreover, it is a much neglected field in the wider study of African education. It is a teaching based on ancient texts and books, taught orally to the students who will become the future clergy and who will then share their knowledge with the faithful in Church life. The studies of the different disciplines are pursued at different schools and at different levels, in liturgy, theology with commentaries of books (Old and New Testaments, books of the Church fathers and monks) as well as composition of poems (qenes) and iconography. All this teaching presented in the present volume is deeply related to the faith and spirituality of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. This teaching is a unique intangible cultural heritage. One wonders, however, what its future will be in the context of the modern educational methods and social attitudes that have evolved in Ethiopia over the last half-century.
Author : Hans Wilhelm Lockot
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447036115
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Bibliographia Aethiopica II written by Hans Wilhelm Lockot and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erstmals wird hier die Fulle der englischsprachigen Athiopienliteratur geordnet dargeboten. In 100 Sections fuhrt der Autor alle fur die wissenschaftliche Beschaftigung mit Athiopien wichtigen Buch- und Zeitschriftenbeitrage zum Beispiel zur "Historyof Research", "Archaeology", "Religion", aber auch Fragen der "Sociology", "Agriculture", "Zoology" und "Medical Sciences" auf. Wie im Falle der deutschsprachigen Literatur ("Bibliographia Aethiopica: Die athiopienkundliche Literatur des deutschsprachigenRaumes" = Aethiopistische Forschungen 9 [1982]) berucksichtigt der Autor auch alle ihm zuganglichen Besprechungen, womit bei einer Aufnahme von mehr als 24.000 Titeln eine Art "Bibliographic Enzyclopedia" entstanden ist.
Author : Isabel Boavida
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351814346
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622 / Volume II written by Isabel Boavida and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, in two volumes, contains an annotated English translation of the História da Ethiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez (Pêro Pais in Portuguese), 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John. His history of Ethiopia was written in Portuguese in the last ten years of his life and survives in only two manuscripts. The translation, by Christopher J. Tribe, is based on the new critical edition of the Portuguese text by Isabel Boavida, Hervé Pennec and Manuel João Ramos, which was published in Lisbon in 2008. They are also the editors of this English version. The History of Ethiopia is an essential source for several areas of study - from the history of the Catholic missions in that country and the relations between the European religious orders, to the history of art and religions; from the history of geographical exploration to the ideological contextualization of the Ethiopian kingdom; from material culture to Abyssinian political and territorial administration; and from an analysis of local circumstances to changes in human ecology in the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean. It is a repository of empirical knowledge on the political geography, religion, customs, flora and fauna of Ethiopia. It combines travel narrative with a historico-ethnographic monograph, and is a chronicle of the activities of Jesuit missionaries in their Ethiopian mission. It also reworks a wide variety of documents, including the first translations into a European language of a number of Ethiopian literary texts, from royal chronicles to hagiographies. It complements other early accounts of Ethiopia by Ludovico de Varthema, Francisco Alvares, Castanhoso, Bermudez, Arnold von Harff, Manoel de Almeida, Bahrey, Alessandro Zorzi, Jerónimo Lobo and Václav Prutky, all published by The Hakluyt Society.
Author : Hervé Pennec
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409482812
Total Pages : 1711 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622 written by Hervé Pennec and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 1711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, in two volumes, contains the first English translation, with introduction and annotation, of the História da Etiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez, 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John. Paez's learned but often polemical work is a major contribution to the political, social, cultural and religious history of Ethiopia in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and to the history of early Portuguese and Spanish missions in Africa and India, and West European attempts to come to terms with non-European cultures.
Author : Walter Raunig
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825869656
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Äthiopien Zwischen Orient und Okzident written by Walter Raunig and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1774 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Africa [3 volumes] written by Toyin Falola and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 1774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes offer a one-stop resource for researching the lives, customs, and cultures of Africa's nations and peoples. Unparalleled in its coverage of contemporary customs in all of Africa, this multivolume set is perfect for both high school and public library shelves. The three-volume encyclopedia will provide readers with an overview of contemporary customs and life in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa through discussions of key concepts and topics that touch everyday life among the nations' peoples. While this encyclopedia places emphasis on the customs and cultural practices of each state, history, politics, and economics are also addressed. Because entries average 14,000 to 15,000 words each, contributors are able to expound more extensively on each country than in similar encyclopedic works with shorter entries. As a result, readers will gain a more complete understanding of what life is like in Africa's 54 nations and territories, and will be better able to draw cross-cultural comparisons based on their reading.
Author : D. W. Phillipson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847010881
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Foundations of an African Civilization written by D. W. Phillipson and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, its development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation of Christian Ethiopia. This book seeks to apply a common methodology, utilising archaeology, art-history, written documents and oral tradition from a wide variety of sources; the result is a far greater emphasis on continuity than previous studies have revealed. It is thus a major re-interpretation of a key development in Ethiopia's past, while raising and discussing methodological issues of the relationship between archaeology and other historical disciplines; these issues, which have theoretical significance extending far beyond Ethiopia, are discussed in full. The last millennium BC is seen as a time when northern Ethiopia and parts of Eritrea were inhabited by farming peoples whose ancestry may be traced far back into the local 'Late Stone Age'. Colonisation from southern Arabia, to which defining importance has been attached by earlier researchers, is now seen to have been brief in duration and small in scale, its effects largely restricted to ľite sections of the community. Re-consideration of inscriptions shows the need to abandon the established belief in a single 'Pre-Aksumite' state. New evidence for the rise of Aksum during the last centuries BC is critically evaluated. Finally, new chronological precision is provided for the decline of Aksum and the transfer of centralised political authority to more southerly regions. A new study of the ancient churches - both built and rock-hewn - which survive from this poorly-understood period emphasises once again a strong degree of continuity across periods that were previously regarded as distinct."--Publisher's website.
Author : Sir Banister Fletcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1846 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture written by Sir Banister Fletcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's major architecture is described, explained, and frequently illustrated. Scope is widened to include more architecture from non-European countries.
Author : Paulos Milkias
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598842587
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Ethiopia written by Paulos Milkias and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the most complete, accessible, and up-to-date resource for Ethiopian geography, history, politics, economics, society, culture, and education, with coverage from ancient times to the present. Ethiopia is a comprehensive treatment of this ancient country's history coupled with an exploration of the nation today. Arranged by broad topics, the book provides an overview of Ethiopia's physical and human geography, its history, its system of government, and the present economic situation. But the book also presents a picture of contemporary society and culture and of the Ethiopian people. It also discusses art, music, and cinema; class; gender; ethnicity; and education, as well as the language, food, and etiquette of the country. Readers will learn such fascinating details as the fact that coffee was first domesticated in Ethiopia more than 10,000 years ago and that modern Ethiopia comprises 77 different ethnic groups with their own distinct languages.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137117869
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Layers of Time written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the world. This book traces the country's expansion southward during medieval times, its resistance to Muslim invasion, and, under energetic leaders, its defense of its independence during the European scramble for Africa. The author is concerned not only with kings, princes and politicians but also includes insights on daily life, art, architecture, religion, culture, customs and observations by travelers.
Author : Edward Ullendorff
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447036153
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (361 download)
Download or read book From Emperor Haile Selassie to H.J. Polotsky written by Edward Ullendorff and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Manuel Barradas
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447036610
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Tractatus Tres Historico-geographici (1634) written by Manuel Barradas and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1996 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
