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The study of the role of women in the society of early medieval England, or Anglo-Saxon England, is a topic which includes literary, history and gender studies.Important figures in the history of studying early medieval women include Christine Fell, and Pauline Stafford.
Anglo-Saxon royal consorts (1 C, 37 P) Pages in category "Anglo-Saxon women" ... Women in Anglo-Saxon society; A. Æthelflæd Eneda; B. Saint Bega; E. Eadgyth; Edith ...
Peace-weavers (Old English: freothwebbe) were Anglo-Saxon women who were married to a member of an enemy tribe for the purpose of establishing peace between feuding groups. [1] It was hoped that by relating two tribes, the animosity between them would be eased as individuals would be reluctant to kill their own flesh and blood.
Women in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms appear to have enjoyed considerable independence, whether as abbesses of the great 'double monasteries' of monks and nuns founded during the seventh and eighth centuries, as major land-holders recorded in Domesday Book (1086), or as ordinary members of society. They could act as principals in legal transactions ...
An Anglo-Saxon kingdom in Europe, ed. M.P. Brown and C.A. Farr. London: Leicester University Press. 35–49. 1999. "Queens, nunneries and reforming churchmen. Gender, religious status and reform in tenth- and eleventh-century England." Past and Present 163: 3-35. 1997. Queen Emma and Queen Edith: queenship and women's power in eleventh-century ...
Barbara Kanner, The Women of England From Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present : Interpretive Bibliographical Essays, 1979; Clare Lees, Gillian Overing, Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England, 2009; Jane Crawford, The Position of Women in Anglo-Saxon England, 1959 - for a section on history of study of women.
Women in Anglo-Saxon society This page was last edited on 20 September 2014, at 19:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Initial with Elizabeth Elstob's portrait from her English-Saxon homily on the birth-day of St. Gregory (1709) Elizabeth Elstob (29 September 1683 – 3 June 1756), [1] the "Saxon Nymph", was a pioneering scholar of Anglo-Saxon. She was the first person to publish a grammar of Old English written in modern English. [2]