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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.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Ethiopic Publication details: Princeton Princeton University Press 2015Description: xxxiv, 500 pages ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780691164212
  • 0691164215
Uniform titles:
  • Gadla ʼEmna Walata Péṭros. English.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 281.75092 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1725.N42 G33 2015
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 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.
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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 / 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 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.

English, translated from Ethiopic (Geez).

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