ISBN:
1-86064-744-8
,
978-1-86064-744-4
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 390 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln
,
Illustrationen (überwiegend farbig), Karten
Edition:
Reprinted
Keywords:
Äthiopien Landeskunde
;
Geschichte
;
Reisebericht
;
Zivilisation
;
Kulturgeschichte
;
Architektur
;
Sakralbau
Abstract:
Ethiopia is a great undicovered empire, Few, in recent times, have journeyed there or have any conception of the extraordinary cultural treasures that await visitors.Stuart Munro-Hay knows the country intimately, having lived and researched there over many years. Here, he has produced the first truly comprehensive guide to the monuments of the beautiful land, steeped in culture.But this is more than an ordinary guidebook, Not only does it provide an immensely detailed survey of all the historical sights - it also offers a literary companion to the country. Greek and Roman desciptions contrast with those of the Portuguese Jesuits and James Bruce - the Scots adventurer in search of the source of the Nile - as well as those of the great nineteenth-century explorers and soldiers. Munro-Hay has also included texts from the rarely cited Ethiopian royal chronicles and outher sources that bring society back to life, giving the stories a human context. Ethiopa was the legendary home of that Queen of Sheba who travelled to Jerusalem to meet King Solomon; it provides the resting place to the Ark of the Covenant; and it has been the battleground of the geat emperors freom Ezana in the fourth century to Haile Selassie fighting against Mussolini's army in the 20th.Here is a guide to Ethiopia's architecture, geography, peoples, art and history, embracing all the major sites of the land over the ages: Yeha, Aksum, Lalibela, Gondar, Harar and many smaller places too. (Klappentext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustratione -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part 1. The land, the church and the travellers -- 1. An outline survey of Ethiopian history -- 2. The Ethiopian church -- 3. Foreign travellers in Ethiopia -- Part 2. The historical sites of Ethiopia -- 4. Gondar -- 6. Gondar churches, Qwesqwam and Islambet -- 7. Harar -- 8. Lalibela -- 9. The church of Yimrehana Krestos -- 10. Aksum -- 11. Churches of Aksum -- 12. Debra Damo -- 13. Rock churches in the Wuqro region -- 14. Yeha -- Chronological table -- Select bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 368-373
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