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

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Frontmatter

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• Abbreviations (page xi)

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• Chronology (page xiii)

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• Preface (Wendy Laura Belcher, page xvii)

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• Acknowledgments (page xxxiii)

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• Introduction to the Text (Wendy Laura Belcher, page 1)

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• Manuscripts of the Text and Earlier Translations (Wendy Laura Belcher, page 49)

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• Introduction to the Translation of the Text (Michael Kleiner, page 61)

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• The Ethiopian Script and Its Transcription (Michael Kleiner, page 72)

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• The Translation of the Life-Struggles of Walatta Petros (Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros) (page 77)

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• The Translation of the Miracles of Walatta Petros (Tä'amərä Wälättä P̣eṭros) (page 273)

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• Summaries of Additional Miracles of Walatta Petros (Tä'amərä Wälättä P̣eṭros) (page 335)

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• Summary of the Short History of Walatta Petros's Community (in MSS I and J only) (page 349)

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• The Translation of the Poem Portrait of Walatta Petros (Mälkə'a Wälättä P̣eṭros) (page 353)

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• The Translation of the Poem Hail to Walatta Petros (Sälamta Wälättä P̣eṭros) (page 381)

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• Colophons (page 391)

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• Appendix: Manuscript Folio Missing from the Conti Rossini Print Edition (from MS J) (page 393)

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• Glossary: People, Places, and Terms in the Text (Wendy Laura Belcher, page 395)

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• Works Cited (page 471)

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• Index (page 487)

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