The Monk on the Roof: The Story of an Ethiopian Manuscript Found in Jerusalem (1904): Open Jerusalem, cartea 4
Autor Stéphane Ancel, Magdalena Krzyżanowska, Vincent Lemireen Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 noi 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004423855
ISBN-10: 9004423850
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Open Jerusalem
ISBN-10: 9004423850
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Open Jerusalem
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments for the English Edition
List of Figures
Note on Transliteration and Dates
Introduction: A Historical Emergency: The Paradoxical Posterity of a Failed Manuscript
1A Sidestep
2Three Readings
3Microcosm, Macrocosm
1 Dayr al-Sultan: A Rooftop Monastery
1A Monastery on a Roof
2One Place, Two Memories
3Histories and Research about the Monastery
4The Limits of Previous Studies
2 An Enigmatic Unpublished Manuscript
1The Archives of the Ethiopian Orthodox Community
2An Unpublished Manuscript
3A Cryptic Text
3 The Archaeology of a Militant Propaganda Text
1A Text Based on Another Dated 1893
2Sources: The Backbone of the Text
3Adaptations, Additions and Interpretations
4A Linguistically Challenged and Challenging Text
4 Conflicts and Protections: 1850–1903
1Dayr al-Sultan: An Unending Local Conflict
2A Community with No Legal Autonomy
3Having Their Voices Heard in Istanbul
5 With Memory as His Only Weapon
1A New Stage in the Ethiopian Claims
2Making up for the Absence of Legal Documentation
3Justifying the Absence of Legal Documentation
4A Respond to the Coptic Arguments
6 The Reflection of an Ethiopia in Transformation
1A Dearth of Written Ethiopian Sources
2No Ethiopian Kings Concerned about Jerusalem?
3A New Interest for Jerusalem
4Differentiating Ethiopians from Copts
5Presenting the Community as Homogeneous
7 The Ethiopians in a Global City
1Rediscovering Jerusalem
2Imperial Ethiopia
3The Opening of an Ottoman City
4Modernization of Local Administration
5Protection and Involvement in Conflict over the Holy Sites
6Acting and Evolving Depending on Others …
7… And Yet Declaring Oneself Isolated from Others
Conclusion: The Keys to Power: The Ethiopians at the Doors of the Sanctuary
Amharic Text and English Translation of Walda Madhen
Appendix 1: German Version of the Ethiopian Anonymous Text of 1893
Appendix 2: Letter Written by Samuel Gobat to James Howard Harris, Earl of Malmesbury, June 29, 1852
Appendix 3: Account of Giovanni Battista Albengo, 1893
Appendix 4: Short Chronology
Sources and Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments for the English Edition
List of Figures
Note on Transliteration and Dates
Introduction: A Historical Emergency: The Paradoxical Posterity of a Failed Manuscript
1A Sidestep
2Three Readings
3Microcosm, Macrocosm
1 Dayr al-Sultan: A Rooftop Monastery
1A Monastery on a Roof
2One Place, Two Memories
3Histories and Research about the Monastery
4The Limits of Previous Studies
2 An Enigmatic Unpublished Manuscript
1The Archives of the Ethiopian Orthodox Community
2An Unpublished Manuscript
3A Cryptic Text
3 The Archaeology of a Militant Propaganda Text
1A Text Based on Another Dated 1893
2Sources: The Backbone of the Text
3Adaptations, Additions and Interpretations
4A Linguistically Challenged and Challenging Text
4 Conflicts and Protections: 1850–1903
1Dayr al-Sultan: An Unending Local Conflict
2A Community with No Legal Autonomy
3Having Their Voices Heard in Istanbul
5 With Memory as His Only Weapon
1A New Stage in the Ethiopian Claims
2Making up for the Absence of Legal Documentation
3Justifying the Absence of Legal Documentation
4A Respond to the Coptic Arguments
6 The Reflection of an Ethiopia in Transformation
1A Dearth of Written Ethiopian Sources
2No Ethiopian Kings Concerned about Jerusalem?
3A New Interest for Jerusalem
4Differentiating Ethiopians from Copts
5Presenting the Community as Homogeneous
7 The Ethiopians in a Global City
1Rediscovering Jerusalem
2Imperial Ethiopia
3The Opening of an Ottoman City
4Modernization of Local Administration
5Protection and Involvement in Conflict over the Holy Sites
6Acting and Evolving Depending on Others …
7… And Yet Declaring Oneself Isolated from Others
Conclusion: The Keys to Power: The Ethiopians at the Doors of the Sanctuary
Amharic Text and English Translation of Walda Madhen
Appendix 1: German Version of the Ethiopian Anonymous Text of 1893
Appendix 2: Letter Written by Samuel Gobat to James Howard Harris, Earl of Malmesbury, June 29, 1852
Appendix 3: Account of Giovanni Battista Albengo, 1893
Appendix 4: Short Chronology
Sources and Bibliography
Index
Notă biografică
Stéphane Ancel, Ph.D. (2006, Paris), is a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He is a specialist of the contemporary history of Ethiopia. He has published many articles and translations related to the history of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
Magdalena Krzyżanowska, Ph.D. (2020, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), is a researcher at Hiob Ludolf Centre for Eritrean and Ethiopian Studies, Universität Hamburg. She is a linguist specializing in the Amharic language. She has also published on topics related to Ethiopic manuscript culture and Amharic literature.
Vincent Lemire, Ph.D. (2006, Paris), is an associate professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris-Est/Gustave Eiffel, and the current director of the Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem (CRFJ). He studies contemporary Jerusalem and the Middle Eastern history. He is the author of many monographs, including Jerusalem 1900: The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Magdalena Krzyżanowska, Ph.D. (2020, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), is a researcher at Hiob Ludolf Centre for Eritrean and Ethiopian Studies, Universität Hamburg. She is a linguist specializing in the Amharic language. She has also published on topics related to Ethiopic manuscript culture and Amharic literature.
Vincent Lemire, Ph.D. (2006, Paris), is an associate professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris-Est/Gustave Eiffel, and the current director of the Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem (CRFJ). He studies contemporary Jerusalem and the Middle Eastern history. He is the author of many monographs, including Jerusalem 1900: The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities (University of Chicago Press, 2017).