The life and struggles of our mother Walatta Petros :
Galawdewos
The life and struggles of our mother Walatta Petros : a seventeenth-century African biography of an Ethiopian woman / written by Galawdewos ; translated and edited by Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner. - Princeton Princeton University Press 2015 - xxxiv, 500 pages ; 27 cm
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 and index.
Introduction to the text / Manuscripts of the text and earlier translations / Introduction to the translation of the text / The Ethiopian script and its translation / The translation of the Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros -- The 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) -- The translation of the Mälke'a Wälättä P̣eṭros -- The translation of the Sälamta Wälättä P̣eṭros. Wendy Laura Belcher -- Wendy Laura Belcher -- Michael Kleiner -- Michael Kleiner --
English, translated from Ethiopic (Geez).
9780691164212 0691164215
99964800371
2014038410
Walata P̣éṭros, Saint,
Monasticism and religious orders for women--History--Ethiopia--17th century.
BR1725.N42 / G33 2015
281.75092
The life and struggles of our mother Walatta Petros : a seventeenth-century African biography of an Ethiopian woman / written by Galawdewos ; translated and edited by Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner. - Princeton Princeton University Press 2015 - xxxiv, 500 pages ; 27 cm
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 and index.
Introduction to the text / Manuscripts of the text and earlier translations / Introduction to the translation of the text / The Ethiopian script and its translation / The translation of the Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros -- The 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) -- The translation of the Mälke'a Wälättä P̣eṭros -- The translation of the Sälamta Wälättä P̣eṭros. Wendy Laura Belcher -- Wendy Laura Belcher -- Michael Kleiner -- Michael Kleiner --
English, translated from Ethiopic (Geez).
9780691164212 0691164215
99964800371
2014038410
Walata P̣éṭros, Saint,
Monasticism and religious orders for women--History--Ethiopia--17th century.
BR1725.N42 / G33 2015
281.75092