Author: Jacqueline Kline

A Russian in Ethiopia: Mutual Understanding Between Orthodox Christians in the Nineteenth Century

Because historic travel diaries by definition capture moments of cross-cultural interaction, they often preserve important evidence of interethnic -and even inter-church- solidarity and strife. This essay hones in on one nineteenth-century, non-African diarist in Ethiopia in order to better understand how international Orthodox populations have related in the past, despite differences in culture and creed. […]