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The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman

Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner 2015
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ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-400-87414-9
Subject
  • African
  • Religion
  • Literature
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • Abbreviations (page xi)
  • Chronology (page xiii)
  • Preface (Wendy Laura Belcher, page xvii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xxxiii)
  • Introduction to the Text (Wendy Laura Belcher, page 1)
  • Manuscripts of the Text and Earlier Translations (Wendy Laura Belcher, page 49)
  • Introduction to the Translation of the Text (Michael Kleiner, page 61)
  • The Ethiopian Script and Its Transcription (Michael Kleiner, page 72)
  • The Translation of the Life-Struggles of Walatta Petros (Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros) (page 77)
  • The Translation of the Miracles of Walatta Petros (Tä'amərä Wälättä P̣eṭros) (page 273)
  • Summaries of Additional Miracles of Walatta Petros (Tä'amərä Wälättä P̣eṭros) (page 335)
  • Summary of the Short History of Walatta Petros's Community (in MSS I and J only) (page 349)
  • The Translation of the Poem Portrait of Walatta Petros (Mälkə'a Wälättä P̣eṭros) (page 353)
  • The Translation of the Poem Hail to Walatta Petros (Sälamta Wälättä P̣eṭros) (page 381)
  • Colophons (page 391)
  • Appendix: Manuscript Folio Missing from the Conti Rossini Print Edition (from MS J) (page 393)
  • Glossary: People, Places, and Terms in the Text (Wendy Laura Belcher, page 395)
  • Works Cited (page 471)
  • Index (page 487)
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