Mikael Muehlbauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4049652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikael Muehlbauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikael |
| FAMILY NAME | Muehlbauer |
| SIGNATURE | MUEHLBAUER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Eclectic Visual Culture of Medieval Moldavia
The Abunä’s Prayer for Fascist Italy
This article presents a hitherto unexamined Italian Occupation-era sermon that highlights the relationship between the Italian colonial government in East Africa and a collaborationist faction of the Ethiopian Orthodox church. The text is a public prayer likely given by the Ethiopian Metropolitan of Aksum (or perhaps even the Nəburä əd [a clerical head]) in response to, and in support of, Italy’s declaration of war against Great Britain and Franc…
Nile Valley Kin(g)ship
Nubia and Ethiopia coexisted as Christian African states in the Middle Ages, yet there is little to no visual evidence for their interaction. This essay evaluates the only known representation of a Nubian figure in Ethiopia: a man with a horned crown in a mural in the isolated monastery church of Maryam Qorqor. Drawing from Nubian, Ethiopian, and Byzantine iconographic sources as well as scattered texts, this study reveals the figure to be an ava…
Reimagining Jerusalem’s Architectural Identities in the Later Middle Ages
An African “Constantine” in the Twelfth Century
Sometime around the mid-twelfth century, two antique structures in Tǝgray, Ethiopia’s northernmost province, appear to have been converted into churches or otherwise reconsecrated. One was a temple dedicated to the south Arabian sun god Almaqah in Yǝḥa from 800 BCE, while the other was an anonymous palace plinth from the sixth century near the contemporary village of ‘Addi Awona. The churches that took over these structures went on to serve impor…
Ethiopian Church Art
A book like this will never again be written. I do not mean this as a hyperbole—Silverman and Sobania's Ethiopian Church Art is the product of the authors’ nearly three decades of continuous research and fieldwork there (7). Indeed, few academic monographs are also so personal: during their study, the authors sponsored the education and subsequent immigration of a now internationally acclaimed artist, Daniel Berhanemeskel of Washington, DC (8, 35…
From Stone to Dust
Until 2010 (when it was broken by a tourist), a curious Kufic-inscribed sandstone block greeted those who entered the narthex of the eleventh-century church of Wuqro Cherqos in East Tigray, Ethiopia. My paper identifies the origin of this misunderstood fragment and presents it in the longue durée , from its architectural placement as part of an inscribed arch in the great mosque of a Fatimid trading colony to its medieval spoliation and use as a …
Bastions of the Cross
Dissertation Abstract
A Rock-Hewn Yǝmrǝḥannä Krǝstos? An Investigation into Possible ‘Northern’ Zagwe Churches near ʿAddigrat, Tǝgray
Rulers of the short-lived Zagwe dynasty have long been lauded for their role as builderkings, producing several churches in the Lalibäla complex in Lasta in addition to the nearby church of Yǝmrǝḥannä Krǝstos. Despite some textual evidence linking this group to Tǝgray, scholars have not hitherto identified any particularly ‘Zagwe’ buildings therein. This paper proposes that several rock-hewn churches near ʿAddigrat in Tǝgray may be the product of…
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From Stone to Dust
Until 2010 (when it was broken by a tourist), a curious Kufic-inscribed sandstone block greeted those who entered the narthex of the eleventh-century church of Wuqro Cherqos in East Tigray, Ethiopia. My paper identifies the origin of this misunderstood fragment and presents it in the longue durée , from its architectural placement as part of an inscribed arch in the great mosque of a Fatimid trading colony to its medieval spoliation and use as a …
Bastions of the Cross
Dissertation Abstract
A Rock-Hewn Yǝmrǝḥannä Krǝstos? An Investigation into Possible ‘Northern’ Zagwe Churches near ʿAddigrat, Tǝgray
Rulers of the short-lived Zagwe dynasty have long been lauded for their role as builderkings, producing several churches in the Lalibäla complex in Lasta in addition to the nearby church of Yǝmrǝḥannä Krǝstos. Despite some textual evidence linking this group to Tǝgray, scholars have not hitherto identified any particularly ‘Zagwe’ buildings therein. This paper proposes that several rock-hewn churches near ʿAddigrat in Tǝgray may be the product of…
Ethiopian Church Art
A book like this will never again be written. I do not mean this as a hyperbole—Silverman and Sobania's Ethiopian Church Art is the product of the authors’ nearly three decades of continuous research and fieldwork there (7). Indeed, few academic monographs are also so personal: during their study, the authors sponsored the education and subsequent immigration of a now internationally acclaimed artist, Daniel Berhanemeskel of Washington, DC (8, 35…
An African “Constantine” in the Twelfth Century
Sometime around the mid-twelfth century, two antique structures in Tǝgray, Ethiopia’s northernmost province, appear to have been converted into churches or otherwise reconsecrated. One was a temple dedicated to the south Arabian sun god Almaqah in Yǝḥa from 800 BCE, while the other was an anonymous palace plinth from the sixth century near the contemporary village of ‘Addi Awona. The churches that took over these structures went on to serve impor…
Reimagining Jerusalem’s Architectural Identities in the Later Middle Ages
The Abunä’s Prayer for Fascist Italy
This article presents a hitherto unexamined Italian Occupation-era sermon that highlights the relationship between the Italian colonial government in East Africa and a collaborationist faction of the Ethiopian Orthodox church. The text is a public prayer likely given by the Ethiopian Metropolitan of Aksum (or perhaps even the Nəburä əd [a clerical head]) in response to, and in support of, Italy’s declaration of war against Great Britain and Franc…
Nile Valley Kin(g)ship
Nubia and Ethiopia coexisted as Christian African states in the Middle Ages, yet there is little to no visual evidence for their interaction. This essay evaluates the only known representation of a Nubian figure in Ethiopia: a man with a horned crown in a mural in the isolated monastery church of Maryam Qorqor. Drawing from Nubian, Ethiopian, and Byzantine iconographic sources as well as scattered texts, this study reveals the figure to be an ava…
The Eclectic Visual Culture of Medieval Moldavia
African history and culture analysis (6 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (3 works) · Byzantine architecture (2 works) · Eleventh (2 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (2 works)