Nubia, Ethiopia, and the Crusading World

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The role of the Nubian Kingdom of Dotawo in the origins of Ethiopian - Latin Christian relations prior to 1402.

<h2>Nubia, Ethiopia, and the Crusading World, 1095-1402</h2><h3>Adam Simmons</h3>Note - This event will take place online via <a href="https://zoom.us/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Zoom</a>. All registrants will be sent links to the session shortly before the event.Adam Simmons will give a talk based on his new book, <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Nubia-Ethiopia-and-the-Crusading-World-1095-1402/Simmons/p/book/9780367481216" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nubia, Ethiopia, and the Crusading World, 1095-1402</a>.The Crusades had a wide variety of impacts on societies throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. One such notable impact was its role in the development of knowledge between cultures. Adam Simmons argues in his recently published book, Nubia, Ethiopia, and the Crusading World, 1095-1402, that the Nubian kingdom of Dotawo and the Latin Christians became increasingly more connected between the twelfth and early fourteenth centuries than has been acknowledged.Subsequently, when Solomonic Ethiopian-Latin Christian diplomatic relations began in 1402, they were building on the prior connections of Nubia, either wittingly or unwittingly: Ethiopia became the ‘Ethiopia’ that the Latin Christians had previously been aiming to develop relations with. The histories of Nubia, Ethiopia, and the Crusades were directly and indirectly entwined between the twelfth century and 1402.By placing Nubia and Ethiopia within the wider context of the Crusades, new perspectives can be made regarding the international activity of Nubia and Ethiopia between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries and the regional role reversal of Dotawo and Solomonic Ethiopia from the early fourteenth century. Prior to the fourteenth century, Nubia had been the dominant Christian power in the region before Solomonic Ethiopia began to replace it, including by adopting elements of discourse which had previously been attributed to Nubia, such as its ruler being the recognised protector of the Christians of north-east Africa. This process should not be viewed in isolation of the wider regional geo-political context.Adam Simmons is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University. His research centres on the regional and inter-regional roles of pre-sixteenth-century African kingdoms and communities and their relationships with the wider world since the fourth century.

<aside><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Nubia-Ethiopia-and-the-Crusading-World-1095-1402/Simmons/p/book/9780367481216" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nubia, Ethiopia, and the Crusading World, 1095-1402</a> by Adam Simmonds</aside><aside>Publisher: Routledge, September 2022</aside><aside>ISBN: 9780367481216 (hardback), UK RRP £120</aside><aside>ISBN: 9781003038108 (ebook), UK RRP £36.99</aside>

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