Queen Emma and Queen Edith : queenship and women's power in eleventh-century England
Stafford, Pauline1997
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In this 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.
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Oxford : Blackwell, 1997.
Collation:
xi, 371p. : ill. ; 24cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780631166795
Dewey class:
942.019
Language:
English
Subject:
Emma, Queen, consort of Canute I, King of England, d. 1052Edith, Queen, consort of Edward, King of England, ca. 1020-1075Women -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500Power (Social sciences) -- England -- HistorySocial history -- Medieval, 500-1500Queens -- Great Britain -- BiographyAnglo-Saxons -- Queens -- BiographyEleventh centuryGreat Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession
BRN:
180506
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