The monk on the roof: the story of an Ethiopian manuscript found in Jerusalem (1904)
Centred on the changing fortunes of the Ethiopian Christian community in Jerusalem around 1900, this book takes the reader to the heart of the political, diplomatic and religious affairs that exercised the city's multinational population.
| Subtitles: | The story of an Ethiopian manuscript found in Jerusalem (1904) |
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| Authors: | ; ; |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Ancel, Stéphane, The monk on the roof : the story of an Ethiopian manuscript found in Jerusalem (1904)] (2023) (Egid, Jonathan)
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| Series/Journal: | Open Jerusalem Ser.
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| Further subjects: | B
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Centred on the changing fortunes of the Ethiopian Christian community in Jerusalem around 1900, this book takes the reader to the heart of the political, diplomatic and religious affairs that exercised the city's multinational population. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments for the English Edition -- Figures -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- Introduction. A Historical Emergency: The Paradoxical Posterity of a Failed Manuscript -- 1. A Sidestep -- 2. Three Readings -- 3. Microcosm, Macrocosm -- Chapter 1. Dayr al-Sultan: A Rooftop Monastery -- 1. A Monastery on a Roof -- 3. Histories and Research about the Monastery -- 4. The Limits of Previous Studies -- Chapter 2. An Enigmatic Unpublished Manuscript -- Chapter 3. The Archaeology of a Militant Propaganda Text -- 1. A Text Based on Another Dated 1893 -- 2. Sources: The Backbone of the Text -- 3. Adaptations, Additions and Interpretations -- 4. A Linguistically Challenged and Challenging Text -- Chapter 4. Conflicts and Protections: 1850-1903 -- 1. Dayr al-Sultan: An Unending Local Conflict -- 2. A Community with No Legal Autonomy -- 3. Having Their Voices Heard in Istanbul -- Chapter 5. With Memory as His Only Weapon -- 1. A New Stage in the Ethiopian Claims -- 2. Making up for the Absence of Legal Documentation -- 3. Justifying the Absence of Legal Documentation -- 4. A Response to the Coptic Arguments -- Chapter 6. The Reflection of an Ethiopia in Transformation -- 1. A Dearth of Written Ethiopian Sources -- 2. No Ethiopian Kings Concerned about Jerusalem? -- 3. A New Interest for Jerusalem -- 4. Differentiating Ethiopians from Copts -- 5. Presenting the Community as Homogeneous -- Chapter 7. The Ethiopians in a Global City -- 1. Rediscovering Jerusalem -- 2. Imperial Ethiopia -- 3. The Opening of an Ottoman City -- 4. Modernization of Local Administration -- 5. Protection and Involvement in the Dispute over the Holy Sites -- 7. … And Yet Declaring Oneself Isolated from Others -- Conclusion. The Keys to Power: The Ethiopians at the Doors of the Sanctuary. |
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| ISBN: | 9004423869 |