Bastions of the cross : medieval rock-cut cruciform churches of Tigray, Ethiopia
"In the late eleventh century, Ethiopian masons hewed great cruciform churches out of mountains in the eastern highlands of Tigray, Ethiopia's northernmost province. Hitherto unparalleled in scale, these monuments were royal foundations, instruments of political centralization and re-Chris...
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Washington, DC
: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
, [2023]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Dumbarton Oaks studies
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[Rezension von: Muehlbauer, Mikael, Bastions of the cross, medieval rock-cut cruciform churches of Tigray, Ethiopia] |
| Verantwortlich: | Mikael Muehlbauer |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- Medieval architecture in Tigray, Ethiopia
- Churches in the making
- Inventing Late Antiquity in medieval Ethiopia
- Medieval Ethiopia in the Indian Ocean world system
- Conclusion.
