Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England

Rebecca Hardie is a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität, Berlin, and the Managing Editor of the Living Handbook of Temporal Communities in the Excellence Cluster 2020 ‘Temporal Communities’.

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Ætheflæd Then and Now: Introduction by Rebecca Hardie



Part I: Æthelflæd's Life and Reign

Living in a Material World: Ætheflæd's Archaeology by Martin Carver

The Annals of Ætheflæd: Notes Towards an Attempted Reconstruction by Michael Wood

Ætheflæd and Female Power in Tenth-Century Europe by Alice Hicklin

The Charters of Ætheflæd by Andrew Rabin



Part II: Women in Tenth-Century England and Beyond

Women and Unconsecrated Burial in Tenth-Century England by Nicole Marafioti

Did the Lady of the Mercians Make Her Own Bread? Gender, Status, and Food Production in Early Medieval England by Debby Banham

Voices of Tenth-Century Women in the Book of Nunnaminster and Royal Prayerbook by Christine Voth

Fictions of Queenship in Asser's Vita Alfredi by Stacy S. Klein

Historical Models of Male and Female Power: The Old English Orosius in the Tenth Century by Victoria E. H. Walker

Remembering Ætheflæd, 1854–2019 by Clare A. Lees



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