The little-known lives of women who ruled, schemed, and made peace and war, between the seventh and eleventh centuries: “Meticulously researched.” —Cather

"A mere chattel, inferior to men, or their social equal -- what was the role of the Anglo-Saxon woman? In this stimulating book, Christine Fell shows how for ma

This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging

The first-ever biography of the most powerful woman of tenth-century England.