Barry Flood (IFA, Art History)

“Architecture as Archive:

India, Ethiopia and a Twelfth-century World System”

The talk presents new research that highlights connections between medieval Ethiopia, Arabia and India that were previously unsuspected. Building on Janet Abu-Lughod’s Before European Hegemony (1991), which argued for the emergence of a ‘world system’ fostered by Mongol rule, it considers the possibility of an emergent world system in the century before the advent of the Mongols, and the role of Ethiopia within it.  

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