A Kingly Craft by Earnestine Jenkins
Product Specifications
- Title: A Kingly Craft by Earnestine Jenkins
- Author: Earnestine Jenkins
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Art treatments & subjects
- No. of pages: 126
- Dimensions (approx. mm): 232 x 153 x 12
Product Description
A Kingly Craft is a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary fields of African art history and visual studies. Ethiopian illuminated manuscripts have been regarded as remarkable expressions of Christian art and material culture. However until recently the elite art form of manuscript production has not been rigorously examined within specific social cultural and political contexts. This work is an innovative study of eighteenth and nineteenth century manuscript painting during a critical period of Ethiopian history known as the 'Era of the Princes.'