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Lalibela: Christian Art of Ethiopia, The Monolithic Churches and Their Treasures

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The Unesco World Heritage site of Lalibela in Ethiopia is without doubt one of the most atypical places on this planet. It contains thirteen churches hewn or carved from the native tufa rock in imitation of buildings. As legend has it, the site used to be founded in the 13th century by King Lalibala, ruler of a newly united kingdom plenty of centuries after the fall of the sacred capital Aksum. Then again, nothing of its accepted or assumed history may also be thought to be certain. Lalibela and the Ethiopian kingdom remained unknown to the West all over the period of the Crusades, and first came to western notice when its ruler sent an embassy to Portugal at the beginning of the 16th century. Dissecting the fragmentary evidence–including decorations, church furnishings, manuscripts, and mural paintings–requires a knowledge of Ethiopian culture and its languages that the authors of this book are rare in possessing.

This is the first book to imagine this atypical site in all its many dimensions–historical and cultural, archaeological, architectural, art historical, and documentary.

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