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]

Leonardo Cohen

Department of Middle East Studies

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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

Keywords

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

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