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

This is the first English translation of the earliest-known book-length biography of an African woman, and one of the few lives of an African woman written by Africans before the nineteenth century. As such, it provides an exceedingly rare and valuable picture of the experiences and thoughts of Afri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:	Libro Electrónico
Autor principal:	Gälawdewos (Autor)
Otros Autores:	Belcher, Wendy Laura (Editor ), Kleiner, Michael, 1962- (Editor )
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés Geez
Publicado:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Temas:	Walata P̣éṭros, > Saint, > 1592-1642. Walata P̣éṭros, > Saint, > 1592-1642 > Miracles. Walata P̣éṭros, > Saint, > 1592-1642 YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān > Biography. YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān 1600-1699 Women saints > Biography. Nuns > Ethiopia > Biography. Monasticism and religious orders for women > Ethiopia > History > 17th century. Saintes > Biographies. Religieuses > Éthiopie > Biographies. Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins > Éthiopie > Histoire > 17e siècle. HISTORY > Africa > East. Miracles Monasticism and religious orders for women Nuns Women saints Ethiopia Biographies History Biographies.
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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.
Chapter 17: Our Mother Escapes Ras Silla Kristos
Chapter 18: Our Mother Moves from the Zagé Monastic Settlement to a Waldeba Monastery
Chapter 19: Our Mother Assists the Wicked Old Woman
Chapter 20: Our Mother receives Food and a Message from Her Mother
Chapter 21: A Righteous Monk Predicts Our Mother Will Found Communities
Chapter 22: Our Mother Commands the Animals
Chapter 23: Our Mother Debates with Jesus Christ and Receives His Promise
Chapter 24: Our Mother Agrees to Found Seven Communities
Chapter 25: Our Mother Discusses Christ's Promise
Chapter 26: Our Mother Preaches and Works Miracles
Chapter 27: Our Mother Again Incurs the King's Wrath
Chapter 28: The Europeans Try to Convert Our Mother
Chapter 29: King Susinyos Banishes Our Mother to Zhebey
Chapter 30: Our Mother in Exile Earns the Fear of Her Guard
Chapter 31: The Queen Helps Eheta Kristos to Rejoin Our Mother
Chapter 32: Our Mother and the Miracle of the Serpent
Chapter 33: More Disciples Join Our Mother in Zhebey
Chapter 34: Our Mother Disobeys the King
Chapter 35: Our Mother Is Freed and Returns from Exile
Chapter 36: Our Mother Starts Her Second Community, at Chanqwa
Chapter 37: Our Mother's Community Suffers a Violent Illness
Chapter 38: Our Mother Looks for a New Place to Live
Chapter 39: Our Mother Sees the Icon of Saint Mary
Chapter 40: Our Mother Founds Her Third Community, on Mitsillé Island
Chapter 41: Our Mother is Persecuted by Ras Silla Kristos
Chapter 42: King Susinyos Renounces the Filthy Faith of the Europeans
Chapter 43: Our Mother Celebrates the Return of the True Faith
Chapter 44: King Susinyos Dies and Our Mother Remains at Mitsillé
Chapter 45: Our Mother Is Healed of an Abundant Flow of Blood
Chapter 46: Our Mother Is Challenged by a Monk.
Chapter 47: Our Mother Establishes Her Fourth Community, at Zagé
Chapter 48: Zagé Male Leaders Work Against Our Mother
Chapter 49: Our Mother Escapes an Epidemic
Chapter 50: The Mother of Our Mother Dies
Chapter 51: Our Mother Raises the Monk Silla Kristos from the Dead
Chapter 52: The Monk Silla Kristos Sees a Vision
Chapter 53: Our Mother Saves Her Followers from an Epidemic
Chapter 54: Our Mother Is Blessed by the Egyptian Patriarch
Chapter 55: Our Mother's Community Flees a Leopard at Zagé
Chapter 56: Our Mother Founds Her Fifth Community, at Damboza
Chapter 57: Why Our Mother Prayed for the Faithful to Die
Chapter 58: Our Mother Orders the Separation of Monks and Nuns
Chapter 59: Our Mother Suffers a Secret Affliction
Chapter 60: Our Mother Repairs the Church on Réma Island
Chapter 61: Our Mother Founds Her Sixth Community, at Afer Faras
Chapter 62: Our Mother Establishes an Order of Communal Life
Chapter 63: Praise for the Nun Qiddista Kristos and Our Mother
Chapter 64: Our Mother Has a Vision of Abba Absaadi
Chapter 65: Our Mother Drives Demons Away from a Royal Woman
Chapter 66: Our Mother Cripples the Disobedient Nuns
Chapter 67: Our Mother and the Miracle of the Righteous Nun Ilarya
Chapter 68: Our Mother Lives in Austerity
Chapter 69: Our Mother Speaks with Our Lady Mary at Amba Maryam
Chapter 70: Our Mother's Brother Yohannes Dies
Chapter 71: Our Mother Converts Walatta Giyorgis Back to the True Faith
Chapter 72: Envious Monks Attack Our Mother's Authority
Chapter 73: Our Mother Provides the Miracle of Flour
Chapter 74: King Fasiladas Enables Our Mother to Complete the Church on Réma Island
Chapter 75: Our Mother Sees an Angel in Zhan Feqera
Chapter 76: Our Mother and the Miracle of Butter and Cheese.
Chapter 77: Why Our Mother Loved to Move Every Year
Chapter 78: Our Mother Goes to the Royal Capital and Falls Ill
Chapter 79: Our Mother's Friendship with Walatta Maryam
Chapter 80: Praise for Our Mother's Humility
Chapter 81: Our Mother Longs to Become a Hermit But Is Told to Stay
Chapter 82: Our Mother Survives Drowning
Chapter 83: Our Mother Establishes Her Seventh Community, at Zambowl
Chapter 84: Our Mother and the Miracle of the Candle
Chapter 85: Our Mother and the Death of Amata Dinghil's Son
Chapter 86: Our Mother Sees Nuns Lusting After Each Other
Chapter 87: Our Mother and the Restless Nun
Chapter 88: Our Mother Falls Ill and Is Visited by Angels and Demons
Chapter 89: Our Mother Prepares for Her Death
Chapter 90: Our Mother Is Visited by Christ and Made Archdeaconess
Chapter 91: Our Mother Appoints Eheta Kristos Her Successor
Chapter 92: Our Mother Departs to Eternal Life
Alternate Ending of the Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros
The Translation of the Miracles of Walatta Petros (Täˀamərä Wälättä P̣eṭros)
The First Miracle: How Our Mother Replenished the Batter
The Second Miracle: How Our Mother Healed a Monk of Paralysis
The Third Miracle: How Our Mother Protected the Fields from Locusts
The Fourth Miracle: How Our Mother Healed the Boy and Replenished the Ale
The Fifth Miracle: How Our Mother Recovered the Lost Candles
The Sixth Miracle: How Our Mother Rescued the Singing Monk from the Storm
The Seventh Miracle: How Our Mother Recovered the Stolen Book of Poems from the Fisherman
The Eighth Miracle: How Our Mother Recovered the Stolen Book of Poems from the Convert
The Ninth Miracle: How Our Mother Repaired the Broken Jar and Healed the Boy
The Tenth Miracle: The Vision of the Making of This Book
The Eleventh Miracle: How Our Mother Stopped the Sun, Rain, and Ale.
Ending and Colophon of the Conti Rossini Print Edition
Summaries of Additional Miracles of Walatta Petros (Täˀamərä Wälättä P̣eṭros)
The Twelfth Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Healed the Man's Swollen Leg (in MS I only)
The Thirteenth Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Saved the Sick Baby (in MS I only)
The Fourteenth Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Restored the Stolen Jar (in MS I only)
The Fifteenth Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Saved People from Fire and with Earth (in MS I only)
The Sixteenth Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother healed a Paralyzed Man (in MS I only)
The Seventeenth Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Protected the Rebels against King Bakaffa (in MSS H and I only)
The Eighteenth Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Took Vengeance on King Iyasu II for Pillaging Her Monastery (in MSS H and I only)
The Nineteenth Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Saved the Celebration Provisions (in MSS H and I only)
The Twentieth Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Took Vengeance on King Iyoas for Pillaging Her Monastery (in MSS H and I only)
The Twenty-First Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Saved a Man from Woodage Asahél (in MSS H and I only)
The Twenty-Second Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Protected Her People from Ras Mikaél (in MSS H and I only)
The Twenty-Third Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Saved a Lying Fisherman (in MSS H and I only)
The Twenty-Fourth Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Cured a Lame Man (in MSS H and I only)
The Twenty-Fifth Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Retrieved Her Stolen Book (in MS I only)
The Twenty-Sixth Miracle Summarized: How Our Mother Healed Another Lame Man and a Sick Woman (in MS I only).

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

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