MST200Y1 Lecture 18: Medieval Ethiopia
8 Mar 2017
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Spiritual space religious devotion understood in spatial terms on the map, orientation of architecture and inside church/mosque. Story: going in different directions but ending up exactly where you are supposed to. Medieval european view of ethiopia: maps east at the top. A fourth continent, below the equator is too hot to travel. Ethiopia is right above the equator, but in medieval maps there are different places in which ethiopia may be placed, or multiple places on the same map. In the later middle ages, maps north at the top, and america is added. Monstrous peoples drawn in ethiopia there is place for everything in the world and the place for monsters is ethiopia. From this comes the interpretation of monstrosities by artists. Later medieval tradition associates one of the magi with ethiopia. Early and again in late middle ages, ethiopia was influential. Christianity: ethiopia became christian before the byzantine empire mediterranean culture adopted.
