Wendy Laura Belcher

Wendy Laura Belcher is a professor who teaches African literature at Princeton University for the Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for African American Studies. She has written numerous publications for which she also received a number of honours.

 

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Ato Demeke Berhane Explains Ethiopian Manuscripts

Ato Demeke Berhane shows and discusses Ethiopian manuscripts in Ge'ez, pointing out aspects of their binding, wooden board covers, cloth backings, cloth cotton covers to protect illuminations, and changing numbers, on a fifteenth-century manuscript. He also discuses the use of color in the particular manuscript, pointing out that all the persons--Jesus, saints, the Virgin Mary--are black.





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