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"Abundantly illustrated, filled with original insights...this book will be of enormous interest to a wide international circle." -- Ethiopian Embassy Newsletter, June 2009
"...a major achievement and addition to our understanding of the evolution of the Church in Ethiopia and beyond." --Mark Horton, Times Literary Supplement, 24th July 2009
`This indispensable resource will be the standard reference work for the foreseeable future.' --David Stancliffe, Art & Christianity, December 2009
`[David Philipson's] book is timely and welcome... For this the author is to be congratulated.'
--Niall Finneran, Azania, 2009
`...ought to act as a springboard to a more focused buildings archaeology approach to these diverse and distinctive structures.'
--Niall Finneran, Azania (Vol 44, No.3) 2nd February 2010
`A gorgeously produced volume, lavishly illustrated with outstandingly beautiful colour photographs.'
--Emma Loosley, Journal Of American Archaeology Vol 8 (1), 2010
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The kings of Aksum formally became Christian during the second quarter of the fourth century, making Ethiopia the second country in the world (after Armenia) officially to adopt the new faith. This landmark book is the first to integrate historical, archaeological, and art-historical evidence to provide a comprehensive account of Ethiopian Christian civilization and its churches - both built and rock-hewn - from the Aksumite period to the thirteenth century. David W. Phillipson, a foremost authority on Ethiopia's archaeology, situates these churches within the development of Ethiopian society, illuminating the exceptional continuity of the country's Christian civilization. He offers a fresh view of the processes which gave rise to this unique African culture as well as the most detailed treatment of the rock-hewn churches at Lalibela World Heritage Site ever published. Abundantly illustrated, filled with original insights, and incorporating new chronological findings, this book will be of enormous interest to a wide international circle of students, scholars, and travellers.
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This is a mostly interesting topic, very often approached from an amateurist or even religious point of view, and it was about time that a most prestigious scholar presented a definite analysis, with a book also full of plans and photographs. Long after the seminal works of Buxton or Anfray, the archaeological standpoint adopted here clearly shows its superiority in treating those incredible buildings, the Middle Ages still alive among us...
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Despite the title, buyers should be aware that this work adopts a prevalently archeological perspective. That said, it does so brilliantly, but little attention is paid to Ethiopian painting.
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