Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England / / ed. by Rebecca Hardie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Banham, Debby,; Carver, Martin,; Hardie, Rebecca,; Hicklin, Alice,; Klein, Stacy S.,; Lees, Clare A.,; Marafioti, Nicole,; Rabin, Andrew,; Voth, Christine,; Walker, Victoria E. H.,; Wood, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Hardie, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 306 p.)

Æthelflæd (c. 870–918), political leader, military strategist, and administrator of law, is one of the most important ruling women in English history. Despite her multifaceted roles and family legacy, however, her reign and relationship with other women in tenth-century England have never been the subject of a book-length study. This interdisciplinary collection of essays redresses a notable hiatus in scholarship of early medieval England. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England argues for a reassessment of women’s political, military, literary, and domestic agency. It invites deeper reflection on the female kinships, networks, and communities that give meaning to Æthelflæd’s life, and through this shows how medieval history can invite new engagements with the past.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Æthelflæd Then and Now: Introduction -- Part 1: Æthelflæd’s Life and Reign -- 1 Living in a Material World: Æthelflæd’s Archaeology -- 2 The Annals of Æthelflæd: Notes towards an Attempted Reconstruction -- 3 Æthelflaed and Female Power in Tenth-Century Europe -- 4 The Charters of Æthelflæd -- Part 2: Women in Tenth-Century England and Beyond -- 5 Women and Unconsecrated Burial in Tenth-Century England -- 6 Did the Lady of the Mercians Make Her Own Bread? Gender, Status, and Food Production in Early Medieval England -- 7 Voices of Tenth-Century Women in the Book of Nunnaminster and Royal Prayerbook -- 8 Fictions of Queenship in Asser’s Vita Alfredi -- 9 Historical Models of Male and Female Power: The Old English Orosius in the Tenth Century -- 10 Remembering Æthelflæd, 1854–2019 -- Index