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Author : Christine E. Fell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Women in Anglo-Saxon England written by Christine E. Fell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine E. Fell
Publisher : British Museum Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women in Anglo-Saxon England written by Christine E. Fell and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annie Whitehead
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526748126
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England written by Annie Whitehead and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known lives of women who ruled, schemed, and made peace and war, between the seventh and eleventh centuries: “Meticulously researched.” —Catherine Hanley, author of Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior Many Anglo-Saxon kings are familiar. Æthelred the Unready is one—but less is written about his wife, who was consort of two kings and championed one of her sons over the others, or about 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. Royal mothers wielded power: Eadgifu, wife of Edward the Elder, maintained a position of authority during the reigns of both her sons. Æthelflaed, 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, and was also, like many of the royal women, literate and highly educated. Ranging 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.
Author : Claire A Lees
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783163615
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Double Agents written by Claire A Lees and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001, Double Agents was the first book-length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on the insights provided by contemporary critical and feminist theory, and it quickly established itself as a standard. Now available again, it complicates the exclusion of women from the historical record of Anglo-Saxon England by tackling the deeper questions behind how the feminine is modeled, used, and made metaphoric in Anglo-Saxon texts, even when the women themselves are absent.
Author : Stephanie Hollis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851153179
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church written by Stephanie Hollis and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1992 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the position of women in the 8th and 9th centuries as defined by the literature of the early church.
Author : Stacy S. Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268206789
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Ruling Women written by Stacy S. Klein and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Klein explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo-Saxon texts as mediatory figures for negotiating sustained tensions and antagonisms among different peoples, institutions, and systems of belief.
Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 164313535X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Anglo-Saxons written by Marc Morris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings. It explores how they abandoned their old gods for Christianity, established hundreds of churches and created dazzlingly intricate works of art. It charts the revival of towns and trade, and the origins of a familiar landscape of shires, boroughs and bishoprics. It is a tale of famous figures like King Offa, Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor, but also features a host of lesser known characters - ambitious queens, revolutionary saints, intolerant monks and grasping nobles. Through their remarkable careers we see how a new society, a new culture and a single unified nation came into being. Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - renowned historian Marc Morris illuminates a period of history that is only dimly understood, separates the truth from the legend, and tells the extraordinary story of how the foundations of England were laid.
Author : Helen M. Jewell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719040177
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Women in Medieval England written by Helen M. Jewell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. It explores the physical spaces and mental attitudes that shaped lives, restructured society, and conditioned beliefs about the past and expectations for the future in the crucial German generations that formed the young Reich, fought the Great War, and experienced the Weimar Republic.Focusing on ordinary buildings and the way they shaped ordinary lives, this study shows how material space could influence the lives of citizens, from the ways the elderly slept at night to the economy of the city as a whole. It also shows how we integrate the spaces and places of our lives into our explanations of politics, culture and economics. It is aimed at those who want to understand urban modernity, Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany, the use of space in social policy and politics, and the design of cities.
Author : Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184383572X
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Dress in Anglo-Saxon England written by Gale R. Owen-Crocker and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Splendid . . . the major overview of Anglo-Saxon clothing and textile from the 5th to 11th centuries. . . . Owen-Crocker has become the authority reconstructors call upon. . . . A wise and scholarly book. TOEBI Newsletter Based on the revised and expanded edition of 2004, this paperback is an encyclopaedic study of English dress from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, drawing evidence from archaeology, text and art (manuscripts, ivories, metalwork, stone sculpture, mosaics), and also from re-enactors' experience. It examines archaeological textiles, cloth production and the significance of imported cloth and foreign fashions. Dress is discussed as a marker of gender, ethnicity, status and social role - in the context of a pagan burial, dress for holy orders, bequests of clothing, commissioning a kingly wardrobe, and much else - and surviving dress fasteners and accessories are examined with regardto type and to geographical/chronological distribution. There are colour reconstructions of early Anglo-Saxon dress and a cutting pattern for a gown from the Bayeux tapestry; Old English garment names are discussed, and there isa glossary of costume and other relevant terms. GALE OWEN-CROCKER is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester. She has a special interest in dress throughout the medieval period - she advises ondress entries to the Toronto Old English Dictionary and has consulted for many museums and television companies. She is co-editor of the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles.
Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442646128
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England written by Paul E. Szarmach and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative methodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some contributions are dedicated to the description and reconstruction of female lives of saints and their cults, others explore the broader ideological and cultural investments of the literature. The volume concentrates on four major areas: the female saint in the Old English Martyrology, genre including hagiography and homelitic writing, motherhood and chastity, and differing perspectives on lives of virgin martyrs. The essays reveal how saints' lives that exist on the apparent margins of orthodoxy actually demonstrate a successful literary challenge extending the idea of a holy life.
Author : Mavis E. Mate
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521587334
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Women in Medieval English Society written by Mavis E. Mate and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-19 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written primarily for undergraduates, this book weighs the evidence for and against the various theories relating to the position of women at different time periods. Professor Mate examines the major issues deciding the position of women in medieval English society, asking questions such as, did women enjoy a rough equality in the Anglo-Saxon period that they subsequently lost? Did queens at certain periods exercise real political clout or was their power limited to questions of patronage? Did women's participation in the economy grant them considerable independence and allow them to postpone or delay marriage? Professor Mate also demonstrates that class, as well as gender, was very important in determining age at marriage and opportunities for power and influence. Although some women at certain times did make short-term gains, Professor Mate challenges the dominant view that major transformations in women's position occurred in the century after the Black Death.
Author : Dorothy Whitelock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107402212
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Wills written by Dorothy Whitelock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1930 volume contains the original texts of the great majority of surviving Anglo-Saxon wills drawn up in the tenth and eleventh centuries. They are of special interest for the light they cast on the connections of those who made the wills, and the ways in which the testators managed the disposition of their possessions.
Author : Shari Horner
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791490440
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Discourse of Enclosure written by Shari Horner and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-05-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2001 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Exploring Old English texts ranging from Beowulf to Ælfric's Lives of Saints, this book examines ways that women's monastic, material, and devotional practices in Anglo-Saxon England shaped literary representations of women and femininity. Horner argues that these representations derive from a "discourse" of female monastic enclosure, based on the increasingly strict rules of cloistered confinement that regulated the female religious body in the early Middle Ages. She shows that the female subjects of much Old English literature are enclosed by many layers—literal and figurative, textual, material, discursive, spatial—all of which image and reinforce the powerful institutions imposed by the Church on the female body. Though it has long been recognized that medieval religious women were enclosed, and that virginity was highly valued, this book is the first to consider the interrelationships of these two positions—that is, how the material practices of female monasticism inform the textual operations of Old English literature.
Author : Barbara Kanner
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Women of England written by Barbara Kanner and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve interdisciplinary, bibliographical essays investigate the primary and secondary source materials on the active participation of women in English law, society, and manners.
Author : Sarah Foot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Veiled Women: The disappearance of nuns from Anglo-Saxon England written by Sarah Foot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no published account of the history of religious women in England before the Norman Conquest. Yet, female saints and abbesses, such as Hild of Whitby or Edith of Wilton, are among the most celebrated women recorded in Anglo-Saxon sources and their stories are of popular interest. This book offers the first general and critical assessment of female religious communities in early medieval England. It transforms our understanding of the different modes of religious vocation and institutional provision and thereby gives early medieval women's history a new foundation.
Author : Elizabeth Norton
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445614928
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Elfrida written by Elizabeth Norton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever biography of the most powerful woman of tenth-century England.
Author : Cecily Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the impact of 1066 written by Cecily Clark and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
