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Gender, family and the legitimation of power : England from the ninth to early twelfth century
- Title
- Gender, family and the legitimation of power : England from the ninth to early twelfth century / [edited by] Pauline Stafford.
- Publication
- Aldershot [England] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, ©2006.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Stafford, Pauline.
- Description
- 1 volume (various pagings); 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Variorum collected studies series ; CS850
- Uniform Title
- Collected studies ; CS850.
- Subject
- To 1500
- Women > England > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500
- Women > Political activity > History. > England
- Queens > Great Britain > History
- Politics and government
- Queens
- Women > Middle Ages
- Women > Political activity
- Königin
- Legitimation
- Monarchie
- Weiblicher Adel
- Historia > England > medeltiden
- Politik
- Drottningar > politisk verksamhet
- Women > Great Britain > Middle Ages, 500-1500
- Women > Political activity > Great Britain
- Kvinnor i politiken > historia > England > medeltiden
- Great Britain > Politics and government > To 1485
- England
- Great Britain
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 1066-1485
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 9th century
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 10th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ninth-century politics and gender -- I.Charles the Bald, Judith and England -- II.Political women in Mercia, eighth to early tenth centuries -- III.Succession and inheritance : a gendered perspective on Alfred's family history -- The tenth and early eleventh centuries -- IV.The reign of Aethelred II, a study in the limitations on royal policy and action -- V.Kinship and women in the world of Maldon : Byrhtnoth and his family -- VI.The laws of Cnut and the history of Anglo-Saxon royal promises -- VII.Political ideas in late tenth-century England : charters as evidence -- VIII.King and kin, lord and community : England in the tenth and eleventh centuries -- IX.The king's wife in Wessex 800-1066 -- X.Emma : the powers of the queen in the eleventh century -- XI.Queens, nunneries and reforming churchmen : gender, religious status and reform in tenth- and eleventh-century England -- XII.Cherchez la femme : queens, queens' lands and nunneries : missing links in the foundation of Reading Abbey -- XIII.The "farm of one night" and the organization of King Edward's estates in Domesday -- XIV.Women in Domesday.
- ISBN
- 0860789942
- 9780860789949
- LCCN
- 2006042728
- 9780860789949
- OCLC
- ocm64898183
- 64898183
- SCSB-14010238
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library