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
by Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner
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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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1400874149 9781400874149
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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
in English
0691164215 9780691164212
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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).
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