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Gender, family and the legitimation of power : England from the ninth to early twelfth century

Title
  1. Gender, family and the legitimation of power : England from the ninth to early twelfth century / [edited by] Pauline Stafford.
Published by
  1. Aldershot [England] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, ©2006.

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Additional authors
  1. Stafford, Pauline.
Description
  1. 1 volume (various pagings); 23 cm.
Series statement
  1. Variorum collected studies series ; CS850
Uniform title
  1. Collected studies ; CS850.
Subject
  1. To 1500
  2. Women > England > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500
  3. Women > Political activity > History. > England
  4. Queens > Great Britain > History
  5. Politics and government
  6. Queens
  7. Women > Middle Ages
  8. Women > Political activity
  9. Königin
  10. Legitimation
  11. Monarchie
  12. Weiblicher Adel
  13. Historia > England > medeltiden
  14. Politik
  15. Drottningar > politisk verksamhet
  16. Women > Great Britain > Middle Ages, 500-1500
  17. Women > Political activity > Great Britain
  18. Kvinnor i politiken > historia > England > medeltiden
  19. Great Britain > Politics and government > To 1485
  20. England
  21. Great Britain
  22. Great Britain > Politics and government > 1066-1485
  23. Great Britain > Politics and government > 9th century
  24. Great Britain > Politics and government > 10th century
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.