Archives and chanceries: Ethiopia

by Ficquet, Éloi

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The archives and chanceries of Ethiopia date from the early Christian kingdom. 1. The Christian kingdom of Ethiopia until the modern period The practices of conservation of public records in Ethiopia are based mainly on older patterns of archive management in the Christian kingdom. Although the ways in which archives were recorded and preserved in ancient times cannot be documented (with the exception of a few stone inscriptions) (Bernand, Drewes, and Schneider), the first records of official a…

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The archives and chanceries of Ethiopia date from the early Christian kingdom. 1. The Christian kingdom of Ethiopia until the modern period The practices of conservation of public records in Ethiopia are based mainly on older patterns of archive management in the Christian kingdom. Although the ways in which archives were recorded and preserved in ancient times cannot be documented (with the exception of a few stone inscriptions) (Bernand, Drewes, and Schneider), the first records of official acts, known from duplicates, date to the sixth/twelfth century. From the mediaeval

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1076

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eng Islam

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Ficquet, Éloi

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