Margaret C. Jones
Autor de Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: from author's LinkedIn
Obras de Margaret C. Jones
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1949
- Género
- female
- Lugares de residencia
- Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Alexandria, Egypt - Educación
- Purdue University, PhD
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Miembros
- 41
- Popularidad
- #363,652
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 7
Alongside and indeed as integral to her remarkable political and military achievements, Aethelflaed effectively founded or developed many of the towns of the West of England, especially Gloucester, Tamworth, Stafford, Warwick and Chester, thus shaping large parts of the urban pattern of today's England. Yet for large parts of the 1,100 years since her death, her reputation has been overshadowed by those of her famous male relatives, especially of course that of her father. She should be better known. This is a highly readable book, making use of the limited sources about the subject's life to create a proper biography, albeit of course with very many details unknown and unknowable.… (más)