African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555
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African European Relations
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Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Cape Verde Archipelago
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Constantine XI Palaiologos
Dom Martinho
early modern diplomacy
East Indies
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Ethiopian Christian history
Ethiopian Embassies
Ethiopian European Relations
Ethiopian Monks
Ethiopian Pilgrims
Ethiopian Sovereigns
Iron Gates
Jean De Lastic
Jesuit missions Africa
Lopo Soares De Albergaria
Marcello Cervini
Mediterranean cross-cultural exchange
Ministero Dei Beni
Muslim World
Oldest Field
Paul III
Philip III
Pope Paul III
Portuguese intervention Ethiopian monarchy
Red Sea trade routes
religious syncretism studies
Testamentum Novum
Transportation Network
Young Ethiopian
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367204518
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the 14th century onward, political and religious motives led Ethiopian travelers to Mediterranean Europe. For two centuries, their ancient Christian heritage and the myth of a fabled eastern king named Prester John allowed the Ethiopians to engage the continent's secular and religious elites as peers. Meanwhile, back home the Ethiopian nobility came to welcome European visitors and at times even co-opted them by arranging mixed marriages and bestowing land rights. The protagonists of this encounter sought and discovered each other in royal palaces, monasteries, and markets throughout the Mediterranean basin, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean littoral, from Lisbon to Jerusalem and from Venice to Goa. Matteo Salvadore's narrative takes the reader on a voyage of reciprocal discovery that climaxed with the Portuguese intervention on the side of the Christian monarchy in the Ethiopian-Adali War. Thereafter, the arrival of the Jesuits at the Horn of Africa turned the mutually beneficial Ethiopian-European encounter into a bitter confrontation over the souls of Ethiopian Christians.
Matteo Salvadore is Assistant Professor of History at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
