LEADER 03983nam 22006975 450 001 9910483519103321 005 20251023123010.0 010 $a9783030649333 (eBook) 010 $a9783030649340 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-64934-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000011801737 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6522083 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6522083 035 $a(OCoLC)1243546338 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-64934-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011801737 100 $a20210317d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMedieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe /$fby Verena Krebs 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 $cSpringer International Publishing$d2021 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (319 pages) $cillustrations 311 0 $a9783030649364 (Paperback) 311 08$a9783030649340 311 08$a3030649342 311 08$a9783030649333 311 08$a3030649334 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. All the King's Treasures -- 3. The Sons of Dawit -- 4. The Rule of the Regents -- 5. King Solomon's Heirs -- 6. Conclusion. 330 $aThis book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa. Drawing on sources from Europe, Ethiopia, and Egypt, it examines the Ethiopian kings' motivations for sending out their missions in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries - and argues that a desire to acquire religious treasures and foreign artisans drove this early intercontinental diplomacy. Moreover, the Ethiopian initiation of contacts with the distant Christian sphere of Latin Europe appears to have been intimately connected to a local political agenda of building monumental ecclesiastical architecture in the North-East African highlands, and asserted the Ethiopian rulers' claim of universal kingship and rightful descent from the biblical king Solomon. Shedding new light on theself-identity of a late medieval African dynasty at the height of its power, this book challenges conventional narratives of African-European encounters on the eve of the so-called 'Age of Exploration'. Verena Krebs is Professor for Medieval Cultural Realms and their Entanglements at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, where she also co-directs the Bochum Centre for Mediterranean Studies. She holds a bi-national PhD from the universities of Konstanz, Germany, and Mekelle, Ethiopia; her primary research focus is on the late medieval Solomonic Kingdom of Ethiopia and its connections to the wider Mediterranean region. 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aEurope$xHistory$x476-1492 606 $aAfrica, North$xHistory 606 $aWorld history 606 $aCultural History 606 $aHistory of Medieval Europe 606 $aHistory of North Africa 606 $aWorld History, Global and Transnational History 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory$x476-1492. 615 0$aAfrica, North$xHistory. 615 0$aWorld history. 615 14$aCultural History. 615 24$aHistory of Medieval Europe. 615 24$aHistory of North Africa. 615 24$aWorld History, Global and Transnational History. 676 $a327.6304 676 $a327.6304 700 $aKrebs$b Verena$0853492 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483519103321 996 $aMedieval Ethiopian kingship, craft, and diplomacy with Latin Europe$91905779 997 $aUNINA