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Title The life and struggles of our mother Walatta Petros : a seventeenth-century African biography of an Ethiopian woman / translated and edited by Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner ; written by Gälawdewos.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.

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 Moore Stacks  BR1725.W27 G33 2015    Available  ---
Description xxxiv, 500 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Note A "gädl" or hagiography, originally written by Gälawdewos thirty years after the subject's death, in 1672-1673. Translated from multiple manuscripts and versions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-485) and index.
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 -- Ethiopian script and its translation / Michael Kleiner -- Translation of the Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros -- Translation of the Tä'amerä Wälättä P̣eṭros -- Summaries of additional Tä'amerä Wälättä P̣eṭros -- Summary of the history of Walatta Petros's community (in MSS J and I only) -- Translation of the Mälke'a Wälättä P̣eṭros -- Translation of the Sälamta Wälättä P̣eṭros.
Language English, translated from Ethiopic (Geez).
Subject Walata P̣éṭros, Saint, 1592-1642.
Walata P̣éṭros, Saint, 1592-1642.
Walata P̣éṭros, Saint, 1592-1642 -- Miracles.
Miracles.
Women saints -- Biography.
Women saints.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Nuns -- Ethiopia -- Biography.
Nuns.
Ethiopia.
YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān -- Biography.
YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān.
Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Ethiopia -- History -- 17th century.
Monasticism and religious orders for women.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
1600-1699
Genre/Form History.
Biographies.
Added Author Belcher, Wendy Laura, translator, editor.
Kleiner, Michael, 1962- translator, editor.
Gälawdewos, author.
Added Title Gadla ʼEmna Walata Péṭros. English. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014127762
ISBN 9780691164212 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0691164215 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
Standard No. 40025365245