Church and State in Ethiopia Tamrat Taddesse
Church and State in Ethiopia Tamrat Taddesse The book by Dr. In fact, the author shows his full and precise knowledge of past literature on Ethiopia, and his critical analysis of historical events is…
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Church and State in Ethiopia Tamrat Taddesse
The book by Dr. In fact, the author shows his full and precise knowledge of past literature on Ethiopia, and his critical analysis of historical events is well founded on the results of recent work; but also-and this is an important novelty-he had access to hagiographical and historical documents, kept in Ethiopian monasteries, which had not previously been known to scholars. ... Taddesse Tamrat is an important contribution. ...
Once in a long while, books are written that set the standard in their discipline. - Professor Enrico Cerulli, in BSOAS, Vol. 37, 1972. Taddesse Tamrat's Church and State has been just such a book, a classic in Ethiopian historiography, unsurpassed in its painstaking reconstruction of the medieval history of Ethiopia.
Few historians have used the rich historical data of the gadl literature as exhaustively and as meticulously as Taddesse has done, teasing out