The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:book
gptkbp:author Gälawdewos
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Ethiopia
gptkbp:dateWritten 1672
gptkbp:depicts religious resistance
female monasticism
17th-century Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity
gptkbp:EnglishTranslationPublicationDate 2015
gptkbp:genre hagiography
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros
gptkbp:mainCharacter Walatta Petros
gptkbp:notableFor important source for Ethiopian history
earliest known book-length biography of an African woman
depicts resistance to Jesuit Catholicism in Ethiopia
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Ge'ez
gptkbp:publishedBy gptkb:Princeton_University_Press
gptkbp:subject Walatta Petros
gptkbp:translatedInto English
Michael Kleiner
Wendy Laura Belcher
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Empress_Walatta_Petros
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6