The life and struggles of our mother Walatta Petros : a seventeenth-century African biography of an Ethiopian woman / translated and edited by Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner ; written by Gälawdewos.

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Monasticism and religious orders for women - Ethiopia - History - 17th century

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The life and struggles of our mother Walatta Petros : a seventeenth-century African biography of an Ethiopian woman / translated and edited by Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner ; written by Gälawdewos.