The life and struggles of our mother Walatta Petros : a seventeenth-century African biography of an Ethiopian woman

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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

Princeton University Press, c2015

Other Title

Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros

Uniform Title

Gadla ʾEmna Walata Péṭros

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English, translated from Ethiopic (Geez)

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 (p.[471]-485) and index

Glossary: p. [395]-469

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