A kingly craft
Subtitle: art and leadership in Ethiopia : a social history of art and visual culture in pre-modern Africa
By: Earnestine Jenkins.
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780761838890
Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian -- History -- 18th century.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian -- History -- 19th century.; Shewa Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia) -- Kings and rulers.; Shewa Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia) -- Social conditions.; Shewa Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia) -- Intellectual life.; Shewa Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia) -- History.; Ethiopia -- History -- 1490-1889.
Notes: Rev. ed. of author's dissertation, Michigan State Univ., 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-110) and index.
Table of contents: value: Eighteenth century political culture in Shewan Province: chiefs, wars, and conquests; value: Shewa's first patron of the arts: Amha Iyasus and his Miracles of Mary manuscript; value: Ruler and saint: Asfa Wassan and holy man, Takla Haymanot: secular themes in late eigtheenth century manuscript painting; value: King Sahle Selassie and the infrastructure of patronage in early nineteenth century Shewa; value: Painting authority: a double portrait, shared power: the 'Queen Mother' and the king; value: Sahle Selassie, iconography, and the ideal king: King David as a model of Christian leadership; value: A 'killer of heathens' and a leader of men: Sahle Selassie, Christian warrior king; value: Duty and leisure: King Sahle Selassie at court; value: On a patriarchal note: painting history and honoring the father in Sahle Selassie's prayer book; value: Coda the cultural legacy of the 'House of Shewa'.