Pauline Stafford
Autor de Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England
Sobre El Autor
Pauline Stafford is Professor Emerita at Liverpool University, previously Professor of Medieval History. She is a specialist in the history of Anglo-Saxon England and of women and gender in England and Europe from the eighth to twelfth centuries. Her previous publications include Queens, Concubines mostrar más and Dowagers: The King's Wife in the Early Middle Ages (1983, 1998), Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (1989), Queen Emma and Queen Edith (1997, 2001), Law, Laity and Solidarities (2001), Gender, Family and the Legitimation of Power: England from the Ninth to Early Twelfth Century (2006), and the jointly edited Gendering the Middle Ages (2000). mostrar menos
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The Haskins Society Journal 19: 2007. Studies in Medieval History (Haskins Society Journal) (2008) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
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Although it's difficult reading, this is a very well written and insightful history. I also really enjoyed Stafford's chapters that covered the nature of family life, the English economy, and what was required of kings in the period.
If you are like me and like to first read a broad, easy-to-understand overview of a period before diving into the details in a book like Stafford's, check out the chapter titled "The Scandal of Aelfgyva" in Andrew Bridgeford's "1066: The Hidden History in the Bayuex Tapestry." Bridgeford provides us with the popular history treatment of the period between the death of Athelred the Unready and the crowning of Edward the Confessor in this chapter. Bridgeford is actually discussing a mysterious figure in the tapestry (Aelfgyva) that scholars have been unable to identify, but two of the main contenders for who this person could be are Emma, the wife of Athelred and later Canute; or possibly the mother of Harold Harefoot, Canute's mistress. As a result, the chapter is a highly readable overview of a period that Stafford spends a lot of time on in her book. Of course, there's also always Wikipedia. I would highly recommend one or the other before picking up "Unification and Conquest," whether you are choosing to read it or were assigned it.… (más)