Название: Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe
Автор: Verena Krebs
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 3030649334
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 2,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa.