Title African Zion : the sacred art of Ethiopia / catalogue by Marilyn Heldman with Stuart C. Munro-Hay ; essays by Donald E. Crummey ... [et al.] ; edited by Roderick Grierson
Publication Info New Haven ; London : Yale University Press in association with InterCultura, Fort Worth ; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore ; The Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, 1993
Location Call Number Status
 Watson Library Stacks  110.97 Af8    CHECKED OUT
 Robert Goldwater Library  O7E A26    REQUESTABLE
 Paintings Conservation  N7988.7.A1 H45 1993    DEPARTMENT USE ONLY
Description x, 272 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 27 cm
Contents Introduction / Roderick Grierson -- Dreaming of Jerusalem / Roderick Grierson -- Ethiopia Revealed: Merchants, Travelers, and Scholars / Richard Pankhurst -- Church and State in Ethiopia: The Early Centuries / Taddesse Tamrat -- Church and State in Ethiopia: The Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century / Donald E. Crummey -- Ethiopic Literature / Getatchew Haile -- Ethiopian Manuscripts and Paleography / Siegbert Uhlig -- Linear Decoration in Ethiopian Manuscripts / Carla Zanotti-Eman -- Catalogue -- Maryam Seyon: Mary of Zion / Marilyn E. Heldman -- Aksumite Coinage / Stuart C. Munro-Hay -- The Heritage of Late Antiquity / Marilyn E. Heldman -- The Zagwe Dynasty: 1137-1270 / Marilyn E. Heldman -- The Early Solomonic Period: 1270-1527 / Marilyn E. Heldman -- The Late Solomonic Period: 1540-1769 / Marilyn E. Heldman
Notes Catalogue of an exhibition held Oct. 17, 1993-Jan. 9, 1994 at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Feb. 1-March 29, 1994; The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, and at 6 other institutions through January 1996
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-270)
Local Note Cover illustrations tipped in
Subjects YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān -- History -- Exhibitions
Christian art and symbolism -- Ethiopia -- Exhibitions
Art, Ethiopian -- Exhibitions
Additional Authors Heldman, Marilyn Eiseman.
Munro-Hay, S. C. (Stuart C.), 1947-2004.
Grierson, Roderick.
Crummey, Donald.
InterCultura of Fort Worth.
Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Other Title The sacred art of Ethiopia
Material Type Exhibition catalogs.
ISBN 0300058195
0300059159 (pbk)
OCLC 30809259