Season Two: Aksum

Season 2 Bibliography

Fisher, Greg. Arabs and Empires before Islam. Oxford University Press, 2015.

Burstein, Stanley Mayer. Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum. Princeton: M. Wiener Publishers, 1997.

 Munro-Hay, Stuart. Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press, 1991.

 Bowersock, Glen Warren. The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea on the Eve of Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Selassie, Sergew. “The Problem of Gudit.” Journal of Ethiopian Studies, 1972.

Procopius. History of the Wars. Edited by H. B. Dewing. United Kingdom: Dodo Press, 2010.

Hatke, George. Africans in Arabia Felix: Aksumite Relations with Himyar in the Sixth Century C.e., 2011.

Steyn, Raita. Gudit, a Jewish Queen of Aksum? Some Considerations on the Sources and Modern Scholarship, and the Use of Legends. Journal for Semitics, 2019.

Thomas, Bertram. Arabia Felix. London, 1936.

Retso, Jan. When did Yemen become Arabia Felix. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 2003.

D'Andrea, A. Catherine, Andrea Manzo, Michael J. Harrower, and Alicia L. Hawkins. The Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Settlement of NE Tigrai, Ethiopia. Journal of Field Archaeology, 2008.

Tamrat, Taddesse. Church and State in Ethiopia: 1270-1527. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.

Munro-Hay, Stuart. The Foreign Trade of the Aksumite Port Of Adulis. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 1982.

Munro-Hay, Stuart. Between Africa and China: Aksumite Overseas Interests Indian Ocean in Antiquity, 2013.

Mann, Kenny. Egypt, Kush, Aksum: Northeast Africa. Parsippany, NJ: Dillon Press, 1997.

Mokhtar, G. Ed. General History of Africa II: Ancient Civilizations of Africa. California: Heinemann Educational Books, 1981.

Burstein, Stanley M. Axum and the Fall of Meroe. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 1981.

Fattovich, Rodolfo. Some Remarks on the Origins of the Aksumite Stelae. Annales d'Ethiopie, 1987.

Orthodox’ Faith and Political Legitimization of a ‘Solomonic' Dynasty of Rulers in the Ethiopic Kebra Nagast. The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition, 2014.

Davis, Stephen J. The Early Coptic Papacy: The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership in Late Antiquity. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2004.

Miaphysite Christology According to the Ethiopian Tradition. Miaphysite Christology, 2010.

Luibhéid Colm. The Council of Nicaea. Galway: Galway University Press, 1982.

Fattovich, Rodolfo. Reconsidering Yeha, c. 800–400 BC. African Archaeological Review, 2009.

Sarah Japp, Iris Gerlach, Holger Hitgen and Mike Schnelle Yeha and Hawelti: Cultural Contacts Between Sabaʾ and DʿMT. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 2010.

Kaplan, Steven. The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia from Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century. New York: New York University Press, 1995.

Selassie, Yohannes. “Plague as a Possible Factor for the Decline and Collapse of the Aksumite Empire: a New Interpretation,” 2011.

Fattovich, Rodolfo. “From Community to State: The Development of the Aksumite Polity (Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea), c. 400 BC–AD 800.” Journal of Archaeological Research 27, no. 2 (2018): 249–85.

Ibn-al-Muqaffaʿ Sāwīrus, Evetts Basil T A., and Hugh Kennedy. History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria: The Copts of Egypt before and after the Early Islamic Conquests. I.B. Tauris, 2017.

Gossage, Carolyn. “The Architecture of the Late-Aksumite and Post-Aksumite Basilicas of Tigray (Eighth–Twelfth Century).” The Basilicas of Ethiopia, 2017.

Mengistu, Melakneh. “Reconstructing Zagwe Civilization.” Journal of Cultural and Religious Studies 4, no. 11 (2016).

Negash, Tekeste. “The Zagwe Period and the Zenith of Urban Culture in Ethiopia (930-1270).” Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, 2006.