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The life and struggles of our mother Walatta Petros

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An edition of The life and struggles of our mother Walatta Petros (2015)

The life and struggles of our mother Walatta Petros

a seventeenth-century African biography of an Ethiopian woman

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Princeton University Press
Language
English
Pages
500

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Subjects

Miracles, Women saints, Biography, Monasticism and religious orders for women, YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān, Nuns, History, Nuns, biography, Ethiopia, biography, Women, africa, Women, biography

People

Walata P̣éṭros Saint (1592-1642)

Places

Ethiopia

Times

17th century

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The life and struggles of our mother Walatta Petros: a seventeenth-century African biography of an Ethiopian woman
2015, Princeton University Press
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Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman
2015, Princeton University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction to the text -- Wendy Laura Belcher
Manuscripts of the text and earlier translations -- Wendy Laura Belcher
Introduction to the translation of the text -- Michael Kleiner
The Ethiopian script and its translation -- Michael Kleiner
The translation of the Gädlä Wälättä ̣Peṭros --
The translation of the Tä'amerä Wälättä ̣Peṭros --
Summaries of additional Tä'amerä Wälättä ̣Peṭros --
Summary of the history of Walatta Petros's community (in MSS J and I only) --
The translation of the Mälke'a Wälättä ̣Peṭros --
The translation of the Sälamta Wälättä ̣Peṭros.

Edition Notes

A "gädl" or hagiography, originally written by Gälawdewos thirty years after the subject's death, in 1672-1673. Translated from multiple manuscripts and versions.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-485) and index.

English, translated from Ethiopic (Geez).

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
281.75092
Library of Congress
BR1725.N42 G33 2015, BR1725.N42G33 2015

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Pagination
xxxiv, 500 pages
Number of pages
500

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OL27203348M
ISBN 10
0691164215
ISBN 13
9780691164212
LCCN
2014038410
OCLC/WorldCat
896806490

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