The monk on the roof : : the story of an Ethiopian manuscript found in Jerusalem (1904) / / Stéphane Ancel, Magdalena Krzyżanowska, and Vincent Lemire.
Around 1900 the small Ethiopian community in Jerusalem found itself in a desperate struggle with the Copts over the Dayr al-Sultan monastery located on the roof of the Holy Sepulchre. Based on a profoundly researched, impassioned and multifaceted exploration of a forgotten manuscript, this book aban...
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| Superior document: | Open Jerusalem, Volume 4 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Open Jerusalem (Series) ;
Volume 4. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (317 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : A Historical Emergency : The Paradoxical Posterity of a Failed Manuscript - Dayr al-Sultan : A Rooftop Monastery - An Enigmatic Unpublished Manuscript - The Archaeology of a Militant Propaganda Text - Conflicts and Protections: 1850-1903 - With Memory as His Only Weapon - The Reflection of an Ethiopia in Transformation - The Ethiopians in a Global City - Conclusion : The Keys to Power : The Ethiopians at the Doors of the Sanctuary