An Ethiopian Scholar in Tridentine Rome: Täsfa Ṣeyon and the Birth of Orientalism
| Autor: | Matteo Salvadore, James De Lorenzi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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History
05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Vernacular Historiography Semitic studies 06 humanities and the arts Humanism Christianity 050701 cultural studies Knowledge production 060104 history Kingdom Political Science and International Relations Orientalism 0601 history and archaeology Classics |
| Zdroj: | Itinerario. 45:17-46 |
| ISSN: | 2041-2827 0165-1153 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0165115320000157 |
| Popis: | This article surveys the diasporic life and legacy of the Ethiopian ecclesiastic Täsfa Ṣeyon. After examining his origins in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia and the circumstances of his arrival in mid-sixteenth-century Rome, the article outlines his contributions to the evolving Latin Catholic understanding of Ethiopia. Täsfa Ṣeyon was a librarian, copyist, teacher, translator, author, and community leader, as well as a prominent adviser to European humanist scholars and Church authorities concerned with orientalistphilologia sacraas it pertained to Ethiopian Orthodox (täwaḥedo) Christianity. As such, he was a key extra-European agent in the Tridentine project of Ethiopianist and Eastern Christian knowledge production. The article also surveys the complex modern legacy of Täsfa Ṣeyon's career, documenting his posthumous influence in the fields of Ethiopianist Semitic studies and Ethiopian vernacular historiography. |
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