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The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 (Paperback)
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The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 (Paperback)
Series: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
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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.
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