Deqiqe Istifanos: "behigg amlak" is a hagiographical history of the rise and fall of a group of Ethiopian monks who founded a fundamentalist movement that rocked both Church and State during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The monks refused to bow before the cross, the icon of Madonna and Child or the king, maintaining that that form of worship was preserved only for the Trinity. They also insisted that asceticism, not observed at that time in the major monasteries, should be observed in all monasteries. These views were not shared by the establishment, and as the number of people...