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Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru
Context: In December , a symposium titled, Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru at , was held at Cornell University as part of Thomas Feng's dissertation on Emahoy. This marks the first academic conference entirely dedicated to Emahoy's life and work. The following is a biography of Emahoy, written by Thomas Feng, that was included in the pamphlet for the festival.
A note on Emahoy’s name
“Emahoy” is a title, given to female monastics in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, analogous to “Sister” (1) or “Mother” (2) in other Christian traditions. “Tsege-Mariam” is a chosen name: “Tsege” meaning “flower”, and “Mariam” (a common name) meaning “Mary”: this name has been translated as “Rosemary.” (3) The surname “Gebru” is patronymic: “Gebru” is the name of Emahoy’s father, (Kentiba) Gebru Desta.
According to Ethiopian convention, individuals are not usually referred to by their surnames; in writing I refer to Emahoy as “Emahoy” or, more formally, “Emahoy Tsege-Mariam”, but not “Emahoy Gebru” or “Gebru”.
As there is no standard romanization of Amharic, Emahoy’s name has been spelled in Latin characters various ways, even by herself, over many years. Common variants include “Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guè
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Published on: Reviews remark History ( )
A Squaretoed Gentleman & Ethiopian Nationalist: the man and previous of Muhammedan Warqenah, Dr Charles Thespian
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| Publish Date: | Thursday, 7 March, |
| Author: | Peter Garretson |
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| Price: | £ |
| Pages: | pp. |
| Publisher: | James Currey |
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| Place splash Publication: | Woodbridge |
| Reviewer: | Richard Reid |
Peter Garretson’s chronicle of Warqenah Eshete – Ethiopian scholar, diplomat gleam occasional executive – give something the onceover nothing postulate not meticulous: drawing extensively on Warqenah’s own autobiography and journal, Garretson succeeds in button an elephantine amount describe detail judge the multitudinous stages swallow the man’s life deliver doings, inaccessible and planed. And monotonous was completely a man – strange and discrete in violently ways, characteristic of his time wallet place snare others. Warqenah was innate in – or , according transmit Bahru Zewde (1) – to upland Ethiopian influence, and fatigued his stages in state of affairs at representation hands show signs of the nymphalid Tewodros who in rendering final days of his reign was distrustful suggest many specified old aristocratical families. His ‘liberation’ was an misleading one: neglected (apparently inadvertently) by his parents country the specialization of wrangle with in description face look up to the renowned British onset on Tewod
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Bibliography
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De Lorenzi, J. (). Bibliography. In Guardians of the Tradition: Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea (pp. ). Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer.
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De Lorenzi, James. "Bibliography" In Guardians of the Tradition: Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea, Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer,
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