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.

Gadla Walatta Péṭros. English. no2014127762

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.

xxxiv, 500 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

A "gädl" or hagiography, originally written by Gälawdewos thirty years after the subject's death, in 1672-1673. Translated from multiple manuscripts and versions.

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).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-485) and index.

English, translated from Ethiopic.