Title: Reflections on the Notions of "Empire" and "Kingdom" in Seventeenth-Century Ethiopia: Royal power and Local Power
Abstract:Abstract The purpose of this article is to re-interrogate the notions of "empire" and "kingdom" in seventeenth-century Ethiopia, attentive to the borrowings and models used by the sources, which are p...Abstract The purpose of this article is to re-interrogate the notions of "empire" and "kingdom" in seventeenth-century Ethiopia, attentive to the borrowings and models used by the sources, which are particularly rich for this period. But it is equally through a study of a person close to King Susneyos, the the ras Se'lä Krestos, and the relations that he maintained with his sovereign, that we can reformulate these notions of "empire" and "kingdom."Read More