HART 238: Asian Christ African Zion (Art History: Givans)

Course:

HART 238: Asian Christ African Zion

Institution:

MassArt

Instructor:

Givans, Duncan

Department:

Art History

Items

On reserve at a library:

1. Africa and Byzantium / Andrea Myers Achi.
2. African Zion : the sacred art of Ethiopia / catalogue by Marilyn Heldman with Stuart C. Munro-Hay ; essays by Donald E. Crummey [and others] ; edited by Roderick Grierson.
3. Cave church of Paul the Hermit at the monastery of St. Paul, Egypt / edited by William Lyster.
4. Lalibela : wonder of Ethiopia : the monolithic churches and their treasures / Jacques Mercier and Claude Lepage ; [translation from the French by Jennifer White-Thévenot and Jane Degeorges].
5. Medieval kingdoms of Nubia : pagans, Christians and Muslims along the Middle Nile / Derek A. Welsby.
6. Monastic visions : wall paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea / edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman ; photography by Patrick Godeau.
7. Multitude of all peoples : engaging ancient Christianity's global identity / Vince L. Bantu.
8. Red Monastery church : beauty and asceticism in upper Egypt / edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman.
9. Treasures in Heaven : Armenian illuminated manuscripts / edited by Thomas F. Mathews and Roger S. Wieck.

Available online:

1. (Burns/Jensen) "Chapter 4: Survey of the Archeological Evidence for Christian Practice" from Christianity in Roman Africa
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2. (Fromont) "Chapter 1: "Nonsense" " from Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
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3. (Fromont) "Chapter 3: The Fabric of Power, Wealth, and Devotion" from The Art of Conversion
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4. (Fromont) "Chapter 7: Penned by Encounter" from Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
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5. (Gilman) Christians in Asia before 1500
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6. (Gnisci) "Constructing Kingship in Early Solomonic Ethiopia: The David and Solomon Portraits in the Juel-Jensen Psalter" from The Art Bulletin, v. 102, no. 4 2020
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7. (Gulacsi) "A Manichaean "Portrait of the Buddha Jesus": Identifying a Twelfth- or Thirteenth-Century Chinese Painting from the Collection of Seiun-Ji Zen Temple" from Artibus Asiae, v. 69, no. 1 (2009)
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8. (Gulacsi) "The Life of Jesus According to the Diatessaron in Early Manichaean Art and Text" from Bulletin of the Asia Institute, New Series, v. 22 (2008)
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9. (Gulacsi/Beduhn) "Picturing Mani's Cosmology: An Analysis of Doctrinal Iconography on a Manichaean Hanging Scroll from 13th/14th-Century Southern China" from Bulletin of the Asia Institute, New Series, v. 25 (2011)
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10. (Heldman) "Metropolitan Bishops as Agents of of Artistic Interaction between Egypt and Ethiopia during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries" from Interactions.
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11. (Hunt) "Artistic Interchange in Old Cairo in the Thirteenth to Early Fourteenth Century: The Role of Painted and Carved Icons" from Interactions.
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12. (Jeudy) " Masterpieces of Medieval Coptic Woodwork in their Byzantine and Islamic Contexts: A Typological and Iconographical Study" from Interactions.
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13. (Maranci) The Art of Armenia
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14. (Nersessian) Treasures from the Ark: 1700 years of Armenian Christian art.
    Link to ebook
15. (Phillipson) Ancient Churches of Ethiopia - PDF of book.
    Link to request form