Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century EnglandISBN: 978-0-631-22738-0
Paperback
384 pages
June 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
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"It provides fascinating insights into medieval family
structures, the manipulation of saints' cults, the nature of royal
estates and patronage, to name but a few of its themes. Anyone who
wants to understand the power structures of the early Middle Ages
will want to read it." (History)
"The stories of Queen Emma and Queen Edith are satisfyingly rich
in the telling in Pauline Stafford's latest book, Queen Emma and
Queen Edith. The sources which provide these riches are varied
and Stafford's use of them masterly." (Parergon)
"Readable and learned, it is an admirable illustration of the
way in which gender studies may be used to enrich understanding of
the whole history of a period." (Times Higher Education
Supplement)
"It will become an indispensable tool on undergraduate courses
dealing with gender, power and politics in the middle ages ... It
also represents a clear, elegantly written and meticulously
documented contribution to the study of the eleventh (and
tenth) century in England." (Gender and History)
"(Stafford) has used her two queens to suggest a great deal, not only about queens and court politics in eleventh-century England but also about the society and politics of a whole period of west European history." (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford: The Brown Book)