Nubia, Ethiopia, and the Crusading World, 1095-1402

ISBN-13: 9780367481216 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 312 str.

Adam Simmons

Opis

This book argues that the Nubian kingdom of Dotawo and the Latin Christians became increasingly more connected between the twelfth and early fourteenth centuries than has been acknowledged.

Spis treści

Introduction / Chapter I: The Definition of Ethiopia through Time and Place / Chapter II: Knowing Nubia and Ethiopia on the Eve of the Crusades / Chapter III: Sources for Knowledge between Nubia, Ethiopia, and the Latin Christians in the Holy Land and Egypt / Chapter IV: Competing Nubian and Ethiopian Prester Johns / Chapter V: Latin Christian Uses of Developing Knowledge of Nubia and Ethiopia / Chapter VI: The Nubian and Ethiopian Response / Conclusion

O autorze

Adam Simmons is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University. His research centres on the regional and inter-regional roles of pre-sixteenth-century African kingdoms and communities and their relationships with the wider world since the fourth century.