Ethiopian Church
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Ethiopian Church, one of the
Oriental Orthodox Churches. Christianity was introduced into Ethiopia in the 4th cent. by St
Frumentius (q.v.) and Edesius of Tyre, and in the early 6th cent. the kingdom of
Axum in N. Ethiopia became an important Christian power. The advent of
Islam led to the decline of the Ethiopian kingdom from the 7th cent. and to its isolation from the rest of the Christian world. After the restoration of the Solomonic dynasty (claiming descent from the Queen of Sheba and
Solomon) in 1270, the Church was revitalized by the reforms of Tekla Haymanot, the founder of the monastery of Debra Libanos, and missionary work was undertaken in the south. In the 16th and 17th cents. the Portuguese sent military aid and missionaries. In 1626 King Susenyos gave his formal obedience to the Papacy and abjured ‘
Monophysitism’ on behalf of his people. Public outcry led to his abdication and the expulsion of the
Jesuits. The country became closed to missionary activity until the 19th cent. The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church was a metropolitan bishop, or ‘
Abuna’, appointed by the
Coptic Orthodox Patriarch until 1959, when the Church became independent; its head now has the title of Patriarch. The liturgical language is Ge'ez, which died out as a spoken language in the early Middle Ages. Judaic features are a distinctive mark of Ethiopian Christianity. The Ethiopian Bible contains some additional items, such as
Jubilees and 1
Enoch. There is a small
Uniat Ethiopic Church.
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Primacy of Primogeniture
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/11/1995; 343 words
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Birth Marks: the Tragedy of Primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille and Jean Racine.(Review)
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Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...inheritance, rather than the prevailing English system of primogeniture. (6) This detail is especially interesting in the context...of early modern England's particularly strict system of primogeniture. To begin, it is probably necessary to establish that...
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Kent and primogeniture in king lear.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...inheritance, rather than the prevailing English system of primogeniture. (6) This detail is especially interesting in the context...of early modern England's particularly strict system of primogeniture. To begin, it is probably necessary to establish that...
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Of print and primogeniture, or, the curse of firsts.(Julia C. Collins's rediscovered novel The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: African American Review; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...effort to write the first serialized fiction by an African American. Furthermore, if we are to continue on this path of primogeniture in print, William Wells Brown's Clotel and Frank Webb's The Garies and Their Friends both appeared in the 1850s. Thus...
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Primogeniture rules, OK? Reliance Industries.(Family trouble at India's Reliance group)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 11/27/2004; 700+ words
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Myth, primogeniture and long distance trade-friends in Northwest New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
Magazine article from: Oceania; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; If the trade networks in New Britain, Papua New Guinea, were linked together in the manner of joining the dots to form an image, what would emerge is a picture of an extensive web of trade-friendships that directly or indirectly connect all of New Britain and its offshore island clusters. My focus
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Psychology: A Downside to Primogeniture
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/19/1990; ; 316 words
; For years, research has shown that first-born children have seem to have it all. Studies revealed them to be over-represented among politicians, prominent scientists, Rhodes scholars and people listed in "Who's Who." But according to MIT historian Frank Sulloway, later-born children have a leg up
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Wordsworth on covenants, "heart conditions," primogeniture, remains, and the ties that bind in "Michael" and elsewhere. (William Wordsworth)
Magazine article from: Criticism; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; 1. Covenants When Peter J. Manning characterizes William Wordsworth's pastoral poem "Michael" (1800) as "a tale about broken covenants told by a narrator apparently aloof from it1) he is not entirely accurate. To be sure, the narrative's plot, albeit one in which "[c]ausal relations between
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Tiff Over Age-Old Right of Sons in Britain's Channel Islands.
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 8/10/1996; 700+ words
; ...The ancient feudal practice of primogeniture -- under which all parents...instead of Sark, where the law of primogeniture still holds sway. Guernsey...monarch. The feudal custom of primogeniture governing inheritance keeps...
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Primogeniture
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
PRIMOGENITURE PRIMOGENITURE implies seniority by birth; legally, it denotes the right of...fourteenth century practically all free tenures were subject to primogeniture. In 1540 the British Parliament passed a statute that allowed...
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primogeniture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
primogeniture in law, the rule of inheritance whereby...feudal system of medieval Europe, primogeniture generally governed the inheritance...for military service, the need for primogeniture disappeared. In England, consequently...
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primogeniture, right of
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
primogeniture, right of the right of succession belonging to the firstborn child, especially the feudal rule by which the whole real estate...
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Thomas Jefferson and the Revision of the Virginia Laws
Book article from: American Eras
...estate and inheritance was that of primogeniture, that the first-born son would inherit...estate to his family in perpetuity. Primogeniture and entail were vestiges of the feudal...Virginia. With the elimination of primogeniture, a father could leave parts of his...
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Romanov
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...thereafter regulated by the law of primogeniture. The direct successors of Michael...decree of 1722 denounced the law of primogeniture and declared that the choice of a successor...assassinated, restored the succession by primogeniture in 1797. His successors reigned as...
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