#POSTPONED# Africa collecting Europe: Medieval Ethiopia

Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Centre for Medieval Studies & York Festival of Ideas Lecture

Learn about African collecting and commissioning in the so-called ‘European Age of Exploration’ with historian Verena Krebs of Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Through an examination of the diplomatic missions sent out from the court of Solomonic Ethiopia to Western Europe in the 15th century, Verena will explore this African court’s interests in collecting foreign objects from Latin Europe for local state-building purposes from an African rather than Western point of view.

Join her for a richly illiustrated talk based on many years of research in Ethiopia, and learn how an   African elite acquired and adapted prestige objects from the West.

Dr Verena Krebs is the holder of a much-prized Junior Professorship of Medieval Cultural History at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany and an alumna of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York. Her research interests focus on medieval Africa and Ethiopia, Renaissance art and material culture studies.

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Image: European painted enamel commissioned by an Ehtiopian Princess