The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros : a Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman / by Gälawdewos

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Text -- An Exemplary Woman, Not an Exception -- The Text's Seventeenth-Century Historical Context -- The Text and Ḥabäša Noblewomen's Anticolonial Role -- The Text's Religious Context -- The Text's Authorship -- The Text's Genres -- The Text's Genres and Its Historical Value -- Other Gǝˁǝz Texts about Walatta Petros -- The Text's Genre and Female Saints -- Scholarship on the Text -- New Directions for Scholarship on the Text -- The Text's Images -- The Biography of Walatta Petros -- The Biography of Ǝḫətä Krəstos -- Conclusion -- Manuscripts of the Text and Earlier Translations -- Introduction to the Translation of the Text -- Manuscript Comparison -- Philological Annotation -- Translation Principles and Procedures -- The Ethiopian Script and Its Transcription -- The Translation of the Life-Struggles of Walatta Petros (Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Author's Worthiness -- Chapter 2: The Author's Petition -- Chapter 3: Our Mother's Conception and Birth -- Chapter 4: Our Mother's Baptism and Childhood -- Chapter 5: Our Mother's Marriage and Children -- Chapter 6: Our Mother Tries to Take up the Holy Life -- Chapter 7: Our Mother's Husband Hunts Her Down -- Chapter 8: Our Mother Returns to Her Husband -- Chapter 9: Our Mother Leaves Her Husband Again -- Chapter 10: Our Mother Leaves Her Brother's House to Become a Nun -- Chapter 11: Our Mother Finds a New Servant -- Chapter 12: Our Mother Meets Her Lifelong Companion Eheta Kristos -- Chapter 13: Our Mother and Eheta Kristos Decide to Live Together and Become Nuns -- Chapter 14: King Susinyos Establishes the Filthy Faith of the Europeans -- Chapter 15: Our Mother Preaches and Incurs the King's Wrath -- Chapter 16: Our Mother Appears Before King Susinyos.…”
CONNECT
CONNECT