Edict of King Galāwdewos
Solomon Gebreyes
Titles
- Edict of King Galāwdewosgez
Authorship
- Galāwdewos attributed.
General description
It is a royal edict banning the trafficking of Christians and their sale to Arab owners under the penalty of death.
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Creation
Date: 1548
it was written at ʾAgrāro↗ , which was then the royal seat of King Galāwdewos .
Work of the literatures of Ethiopia and Eritrea
Editions Bibliography
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Habtamu Mengistie, T. 2016. ‘The Edict of King Gälawdéwos Against the Illegal Slave Trade in Christians: Ethiopia, 1548’, The Medieval Globe, 2/2 (2016), 73–114.
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Publication Statement
Edition Statement
Digital text based on Habtamu Mengistie 2016.
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Alessandro Bausi, Solomon Gebreyes, ʻEdict of King Galāwdewosʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 16.5.2018) https://betamasaheft.eu/works/LIT4969EdictGala [Accessed: 2024-05-04+02:00]
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- Solomon Gebreyes Created entity on 16.5.2018
- Solomon Gebreyes encoded the text on 16.5.2018
Attributions of the contents
Alessandro Bausi, general editor
Solomon Gebreyes, editor