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1 online resource (545 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
| Summary |
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 Africans, especially women, before the modern era. It is also an extraordinary account of a remarkable life--full of vivid dialogue, heartbreak, and triumph. The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who led a successful nonviolent movement to preserve African Christian beliefs in the face of European protocolonialism. When the Jesuits tried to convert the Ethiopians from their ancient form of Christianity, Walatta Petros (1592-1642), a noblewoman and the wife of one of the emperor's counselors, risked her life by leaving her husband, who supported the conversion effort, and leading the struggle against the Jesuits. After her death, her disciples wrote this book, praising her as a friend of women, a devoted reader, a skilled preacher, and a radical leader. One of the earliest stories of African resistance to European influence, this biography also provides a picture of domestic life, including Walatta Petros's life-long relationship with a female companion. Richly illustrated with dozens of color illustrations from early manuscripts, this groundbreaking volume provides an authoritative and highly readable translation along with an extensive introduction. Other features include a chronology of Walatta Petros's life, maps, a comprehensive glossary, and detailed notes on textual variants |
| Notes |
Chapter 36: Our Mother Starts Her Second Community, at Chanqwa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-485) and index |
| Credits |
Jacket image reprinted by kind permission of the photographer, Claire Bosc-Tiessé. Portrait of Walatta Petros from a manuscript at Walatta Petros's monastery on Lake Tana; MS D, folio 134v; photographed in 1997 |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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Walata P̣éṭros, Saint, 1592-1642.
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Walata P̣éṭros, Saint, 1592-1642 -- Miracles
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Walata P̣éṭros, Saint, 1592-1642 fast |
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YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān -- Biography
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YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān fast |
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Women saints -- Biography
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Nuns -- Ethiopia -- Biography
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Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Ethiopia -- History -- 17th century
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HISTORY -- Africa -- East.
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Miracles
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Monasticism and religious orders for women
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Nuns
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Women saints
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Ethiopia
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Belcher, Wendy Laura, editor.
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Kleiner, Michael, 1962- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781400874149 |
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1400874149 |
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9780691164212 |
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0691164215 |
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