What can we say about the traditional Way of Life – and Modes of Thought – of Ethiopians of Medieval Times?
To answer this question one should perhaps probe into Ethiopia’s economic and social, as well as cultural history.
In trying to do so, I would emphasise that we are here considering the historic medieval Ethiopian empire – what some scholars choose to term “Abyssinia” – rather than the entire area of present-day Ethiopia.
Richard Pankhurst 