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Uniform Title Gadla ʼEmna Walata Péṭros. English.
Title 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.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
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Description xxxiv, 500 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 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 -- The Ethiopian script and its transcription / Michael Kleiner -- The translation of the Life-struggles of Walatta Petros (Gädlä Wälättä ̣Peṭros) -- The translation of the Miracles of Walatta Petros (Tä'amerä Wälättä ̣Peṭros) -- Summaries of additional Miracles of Walatta Petros (Tä'amerä Wälättä ̣Peṭros) -- Summary of the Short history of Walatta Petros's community (in MSS I and J only) -- The translation of the poem Portrait of Walatta Petros (Mälke'a Wälättä ̣Peṭros) -- The translation of the poem Hail to Walatta Petros (Sälamta Wälättä ̣Peṭros).
Language English, translated from Ethiopic (Geez).
Subject Walata ̣Péṭros, Saint, 1592-1642.
Walata ̣Péṭros, Saint, 1592-1642 -- Miracles.
YaʼItyọpyā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān -- Biography.
Women saints -- Biography.
Nuns -- Ethiopia -- Biography.
Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Ethiopia -- History -- 17th century.
Walata ̣Péṭros, Saint, 1592-1642. (OCoLC)fst01856645
YaʼItyọpyā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān. (OCoLC)fst00520329
Miracles. (OCoLC)fst01023535
Monasticism and religious orders for women. (OCoLC)fst01025166
Nuns. (OCoLC)fst01041386
Women saints. (OCoLC)fst01178484
Ethiopia. (OCoLC)fst01205830
Chronological Term 1600 - 1699
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Belcher, Wendy Laura, translator, editor.
Kleiner, Michael, 1962- translator, editor.
Gälawdewos, author.
Standard No. 40025365245
ISBN 9780691164212 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0691164215 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
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