Matthew Firth

Early English Queens, 850-1000 (eBook, ePUB)

Potestas Reginae

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing the development of the queen's role from bed companion to institutional office.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040020302
• Artikelnr.: 70019360

Autorenporträt

Matthew Firth is Associate Lecturer in medieval history at Flinders University, Australia. His research focuses on historical narrative and its transmission across time and place with particular interest in the historiography of tenth-century England. His research has appeared in various journals, including Royal Studies Journal, Neophilologus, English Studies, and Scandinavian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Queens
Consort
Concubines 1. Æthelflæd: Lady of the Mercians 2. Eadgifu: Queen Consort
Queen Mother
Queen Grandmother 3. Ælfthryth: Anointed Queen 4. Queenship as Political Office 5. Afterlives and Legacies Conclusion