Foundations of an African Civilisation - Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300

This well-illustrated book provides an up-to-date survey of a key period in the history of northern Ethiopia and south-central Eritrea, their development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation of Christian Ethiopia. It considers how the region's literate communities arose and flourished during the last millennium BC, giving rise to the Aksumite civilisation whose achievements and intercontinental significance are increasingly recognised, and which formed an integral but often neglected component of the Christian world in Late Antiquity.

Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa

Sommario

Introduction - Part I Before Aksum
The northern Horn 3000 years ago
The first millennium BC - Part II The Kingdom of Aksum
Aksumite civilisation: an introductory summary
Aksumite languages & literacy
Some written sources relating to Aksumite civilisation
The emergence & expansion of the Aksumite state
Aksumite kingship & politics
Aksumite religion
Cultivation & herding, food & drink
Urbanism, architecture & non-funerary monuments
Aksumite burials
Aksumite technology & material culture
Aksumite coinage
Foreign contacts of the Aksumite state
Decline & transformation of the Aksumite state - Part III After Aksum
The Zagwe Dynasty - Part IV Epilogue
The future of the past in the northern Horn

Info autore

David W. Phillipson

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David W. Phillipson
• Editore: James Currey
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 17.04.2014
• EAN: 9781847010889
• ISBN: 978-1-84701-088-9
• Pagine: 306
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 216 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 388 g
• Serie: Eastern Africa Series; Eastern Africa; Eastern Africa Series; Eastern Africa
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Archäologie einer Periode / Region, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Äthiopien