Voices from Däbrä Zämäddo presents three major sources on the history of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and its monasticism: two hagiographical histories (gädlat), one of Abba Bärtälomewos and one of Abba Yo?ann?s, founders of the famous...

This volume, written by Abba Isay¿yyas, is a hagiographical history of Akalä Kr¿stos, a sixteenth-century Gondärite prince. When there was a rumor that the prince's father, Gälawdewos, was preparing to overthrow his brother Emperor...