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Queen Emma and Queen Edith
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Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England
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Artikel-Nr:
9780631227380
Veröffentl:
2001
Erscheinungsdatum:
21.04.2001
Seiten:
384
Autor:
Pauline Stafford
Gewicht:
555 g
Format:
229x152x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Pauline Stafford was born and educated in Leeds and received her first degree and doctorate from Oxford University. She now holds a personal Chair at the University of Huddersfield. She is author of numerous articles on early English history, and on the history of early medieval women. Her previous books include Queens, Concubines and Dowagers (1983) and Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (1989). She was consultant editor of The Biographical Dictionary of British Women (1996) and is a member of the editorial Collective of Gender & History. She is married with three children.
Through detailed study of these women the author demonstrates the integral place of royal queens in the rule of the English kingdom and in the process of unification by which England was made.
Important study of women and power in medieval England.
Sets biographical study of two early English queens in social and political context.
List of Figures.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: The Stories. .
Prologue.
1. Emma and Edith in the Narratives of the Eleventh Century.
2. Emma s and Edith s Narratives.
Part II: The Structures. .
3. The Faces of the Queen.
4. Family: Structures and Ideals.
5. Household, Land and Patronage.
6. Queen and Queenship.
7. The Fluctuating Power of the Queen: Witnessing and Identities.
Part III: The Lives. .
8. Emma.
9. Edith.
Appendix I The Lands and Revenues of Edith in Domesday Book.
Appendix II Emma s and Edith s Household Followers.
Appendix III Genealogical Tables.
Bibliography.
Index.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: The Stories. .
Prologue.
1. Emma and Edith in the Narratives of the Eleventh Century.
2. Emma s and Edith s Narratives.
Part II: The Structures. .
3. The Faces of the Queen.
4. Family: Structures and Ideals.
5. Household, Land and Patronage.
6. Queen and Queenship.
7. The Fluctuating Power of the Queen: Witnessing and Identities.
Part III: The Lives. .
8. Emma.
9. Edith.
Appendix I The Lands and Revenues of Edith in Domesday Book.
Appendix II Emma s and Edith s Household Followers.
Appendix III Genealogical Tables.
Bibliography.
Index.