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Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
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Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
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Many Anglo-Saxon kings are familiar. AEthelred the Unready is one,
yet less is written of his wife, who was consort of two kings and
championed one of her sons over the others, or his mother who was
an anointed queen and powerful regent, but was also accused of
witchcraft and regicide. A royal abbess educated five bishops and
was instrumental in deciding the date of Easter; another took on
the might of Canterbury and Rome and was accused by the monks of
fratricide. Anglo-Saxon women were prized for their bloodlines -
one had such rich blood that it sparked a war - and one was
appointed regent of a foreign country. Royal mothers wielded power;
Eadgifu, wife of Edward the Elder, maintained a position of
authority during the reigns of both her sons. AEthelflaed, Lady of
the Mercians, was a queen in all but name, while few have heard of
Queen Seaxburh, who ruled Wessex, or Queen Cynethryth, who issued
her own coinage. She, too, was accused of murder, but was also,
like many of the royal women, literate and highly-educated. From
seventh-century Northumbria to eleventh-century Wessex and making
extensive use of primary sources, Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon
England examines the lives of individual women in a way that has
often been done for the Anglo-Saxon men but not for their wives,
sisters, mothers and daughters. It tells their stories: those who
ruled and schemed, the peace-weavers and the warrior women, the
saints and the sinners. It explores, and restores, their
reputations.
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