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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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Mediterranean Way
Chapter 1: Ethiopians in the Lagoon, 1402-1459.
The Stato da Mar and the Christian Highlands
1402
Maps and Itineraries
Chapter 2: The Crown of Aragon, 1427-1453
Valencia
Naples
Chapter 3: Rome via Jerusalem, 1439-1484
Ethiopians at the Council of Florence
Ethiopian Initiatives
The Establishing of Santo Stefano degli Abissini
Chapter 4: Lisbon, 1441-1508
The Atlantic Way
The Indian Way
Part Two: The Indian Run
Chapter 5: Beyond the Sea, 1509-1520
Matewos's Mission
Mare Rubrum
Chapter 6: Shewa, 1400s-1526
The First Faranji
Faranji at Court in the Late 15th Century
Lima at Court
Chapter 7:A Tale of Three Cities, 1527-1539
Bologna
Rome
Lisbon
Chapter 8: Ending the War and the Encounter, 1540-1555
The Barber-Bleeder Turned Patriarch
The Ethiopian Monk Who Almost Turned Missionary
The Ethiopian Monk Turned Catholic Bishop
Conclusion
Appendix: leading political figures
Ethiopian Emperors
Kings of Portugal
Governors and Viceroys of the Estado da India
Roman Pontiffs
Bibliography
Archival sources
Published sources
Secondary literature
