Galawdewos, The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman: [Review]

Leonardo Cohen

Galawdewos, The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman: [Review]

Department of Middle East Studies

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Abstract

Religious literature was a thriving enterprise in medieval Ethiopia. Besides
translations of classic Christian patristic texts, the Early Solomonic period
(1270–1528) produced original theological works as well as hagiographies of
local saints.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	211-213
Number of pages	3
Journal	Early Modern Women
Volume	11
Issue number	1
State	Published - 2016

Keywords

1592-1642
1962
Belcher
Wendy Laura
editor
Gälawdewos
-- author
Kleiner
Michael
Saint
translator
Walata P̣éṭros

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Galawdewos, The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman: [Review]

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