The monk on the roof: the story of an Ethiopian manuscript found in Jerusalem (1904)
Introduction : A Historical Emergency : The Paradoxical Posterity of a Failed Manuscript - Dayr al-Sultan : A Rooftop Monastery - An Enigmatic Unpublished Manuscript - The Archaeology of a Militant Propaganda Text - Conflicts and Protections: 1850-1903 - With Memory as His Only Weapon - The Reflecti...
| Summary: | Introduction : A Historical Emergency : The Paradoxical Posterity of a Failed Manuscript - Dayr al-Sultan : A Rooftop Monastery - An Enigmatic Unpublished Manuscript - The Archaeology of a Militant Propaganda Text - Conflicts and Protections: 1850-1903 - With Memory as His Only Weapon - The Reflection of an Ethiopia in Transformation - The Ethiopians in a Global City - Conclusion : The Keys to Power : The Ethiopians at the Doors of the Sanctuary "Around 1900 the small Ethiopian community in Jerusalem found itself in a desperate struggle with the Copts over the Dayr al-Sultan monastery located on the roof of the Holy Sepulchre. Based on a profoundly researched, impassioned and multifaceted exploration of a forgotten manuscript, this book abandons the standard majority discourse and approaches the history of Jerusalem through the lens of a community typically considered marginal. It illuminates the political, religious and diplomatic affairs that exercised the city, and guides the reader on a fascinating journey from the Ethiopian highlands to the Holy Sepulchre, passing through the Ottoman palaces in Istanbul"-- |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in French as: Le moine sur le toit: histoire d'un manuscrit éthiopien trouvé à Jérusalem (1904). Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020 Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004423850 |