| Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian Contributor(s): Bausi, Alessandro (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0754669971 ISBN-13: 9780754669975 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $380.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Orthodox - History |
| Dewey: 281.75 |
| LCCN: 2011934419 |
| Series: Worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300-1500 |
| Physical Information: 480 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume brings together a set of contributions, many appearing in English for the first time, together with a new introduction, covering the history of the Ethiopian Christian civilization in its formative period (300-1500 AD). Rooted in the late antique kingdom of Aksum (present day Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea), and lying between Byzantium, Africa and the Near East, this civilization is presented in a series of case studies. At a time when philological and linguistic investigations are being challenged by new approaches in Ethiopian studies, this volume emphasizes the necessity of basic research, while avoiding the reduction of cultural questions to matters of fact and detail. |