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Clear BOSC-TIESSE
Charged with Research (NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH)
Member of the team of Aix-en-Provence of Donatecarcenter.com
History
Contact : bosc-tiesse@mmsh.univ-aix.fr
Research topics
History and history of art of Éthiopie : conception of the book, plant of pictures and writing of history Historical geography of Éthiopie
Seminars and research workshops
Co-organizer of research seminar Societies and kingdoms of the regions of the Nile in the Horn of Africa. New fields, new questions
Research plans
On 2003-2007, ACI Margins and peripheries, roads and networks : the processes of building of the areas of the Ethiopian State from the XIIIth century to our days.
Coordination with Mary-Laura Derat (Donatecarcenter.com-Paris)
Publications
Works Formalities of death. Studies on death and funeral in Éthiopie, C. Bosc-Tiessé, M.-L. Derat, B. Hirsch, In. Wion dir., to appear. The art of power. Pictures, history and policy in the kingdom of Éthiopie (the XVIIth - XVIIIth century s.), Paris, Publications of the Sorbonne, to appear. On 2005, sacred Painting of Éthiopie. Collection of mission Dakar-Djibouti, Saint-Maur of ditches, Sepia, in collaboration with Anaïs Wion. (Price Albert Bernard 2005 of the overseas Academy of sciences)
Articles On 1998, « Inventory of painting dated from the XVIIth century at the beginning of the XIXth century : questions on the gondarien (Éthiopie) art », Other sources, new looks. Notebooks of the Centre of Africain researches, University of Paris I - AFERA, 9, 1998, pp. 215-242, 2 fig (in collaboration with Anaïs Wion). On 2000, « Notes on history and art of the churches of the lake Tana. Report of mission (December 27th, 1997 - January 28th, 1998) », Annals of Éthiopie, 16, 2000, pp. 207-270, pl. IV - VI, 22 fig (erratum in flight. XVII, 2001, p. 395). On 2000, « The Gadla Giyorgis of Kebran Gabriel and the Setting up in Ethiopia of iconographical a year Cycle illustrating the Miracle Life, Martyrdom and of Holy George of Lydda », 14th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies - Abstracts, Addis Ababa, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, on 2000, pp. 137-138. On 2002, « Museum of the Man : the decoration of Dutch tiles of faience of an Ethiopian royal church in the XVIIIth century (Qwesqwam, Gondar) », The Magazine of the Louvre, 3, 2002, pp. 54-59, 13 fig On 2002, « gondarien art, fruit of royal and religious patronage », History of Christianity - Magazine, 9, on February, 2002, pp. 62-67, 8 fig On 2002« The Kingdom of Gondar (Éthiopie, XVIITH - XVIIITH centuries) », December, 2002, Internet site of Clio, association of cultural trips, (http://www.clio.fr/bibliotheque/Le_Royaume_de_Gondar.asp) On 2004, « The Use of Westerner Engravings in Ethiopian Painting in the 17th and 18th centuries », in The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art. On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the centuries 16th-17th, Mr J. Ramos - I. Boavida éd., London, Ashgate, on 2004, pp. 83-102, ill. Version in English, reviewed and augmented by the communication introduced at the 5th conference on the history of art Ethiopian (Arrábida, October 26-30, 1999). On 2004, « “How Beautiful She Is ! ”in her mirror : Polysemic Images and Reflections of Power of year Eighteenth-Century Ethiopian Queen », Newspaper of Early Modern History, on 2004, 8, 3-4, pp. 294-315, 9 online Available fig On 2006, « Creating year Iconographic Cycle : the Acts of Wälättä Petros and the Emergence of Qwärata ace has Place of Asylum », in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg, 21-25 July 2003, S. Uhlig éd., Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2006, pp. 386-393, 4 fig
To appear « Smoke in Christian Éthiopie in the XVIIIth century : pagan's morals ? Evidence and against evidence of a picture », composite Identity. Dynamic linguistics and religious in Africa, M.-L. Derat, B. Hirsch, Mr Kropp, F.-C. Muth éd., Paris
In Formalities of death. Studies on death and funeral in Éthiopie, to appear : « The numerous tombs of the kings : ideology and royal sanctity in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries » « The invention of the royal relics in Daga Estifanos and the creation of the monastic founder » « Of pact in pilgrimage and in miracles : sequences around the death of the saint », with Mary-Laura Derat.
Articles for Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by the Institute für Afrikanistik and Äthiopistik of the University of Hamburg conducted by Pr. Siegbert Uhlig : « Betä Ləhem (church) », Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2003, flight. 1, p. 560. « Dabra Maryam (monastery Tana) », « Dabra Metmaq (church in Gondar) », « Dabra Warq (church and monastery) is lake », « Daga Estifanos (monastery they Tana) is lake », « Let us graft (island one one lake Tana) », « Galila (church lake Tana) », « Gubae (royal settlement) », Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, on 2005, flight. 2, pp. 32-33, 35, 51-52, 57-59, 320, 659-660, 898-899. « Heruy Giyorgis (church in Dabra Tabor, place of coronation of Yohannes IV) », " Hiruta Amlak (monk) " , " King Iyasu I (1682-1706) " , " Kebran Gabriel (monastery) " , Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, flight. 3, to appear. « Martula Maryam (monastery) », " Narga Sellassé (church) " , Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, flight. 4, to appear.
Working tools Inventory of libraries and of catalogues of Ethiopian manuscripts, in collaboration with Anaïs Wion and Mary-Laura Derat, 66 pages, publication under form electronic, available for consultation from the portal médiéviste Minstrel : See inventory / URL2
Research course
After a double training in history and in history of art, Claire Bosc-Tiessé supported a thesis of history of art in Paris-I in December, 2001 under title Art, Church and kingship in Ethiopia in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries : writing of history and "plant" of pictures in the churches of the lake Tana (to appear to the Publications of the Sorbonne under title The Art of power. Pictures, history and policy in the kingdom of Éthiopie (XVIIth - XVIIIth centuries).
She joined in October, 2002 the ex-institute of Africain Studies in Aix-en-Provence where she follows her researches on the history of the book and of the picture and on networks of power and of knowledge in Éthiopie, mainly in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.
