Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe Krebs Verena
Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe Krebs Verena This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle…
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Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe Krebs Verena
This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. 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. 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.
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'