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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1997. Important study of women and power in medieval England. This is the first full-scale biography of two early English queens: Emma, queen first to Aethelread and then to Cnut, and Edith, queen to Edward the Confessor.
Full Description
Through detailed study of these women the author demonstrates the integral place of royal queens in the rule of the English kingdom and in the process of unification by which England was made.
Contents
List of Figures. Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: The Stories. .
Prologue.
1. Emma and Edith in the Narratives of the Eleventh Century.
2. Emma's and Edith's Narratives.
Part II: The Structures. .
3. The Faces of the Queen.
4. Family: Structures and Ideals.
5. Household, Land and Patronage.
6. Queen and Queenship.
7. The Fluctuating Power of the Queen: Witnessing and Identities.
Part III: The Lives. .
8. Emma.
9. Edith.
Appendix I The Lands and Revenues of Edith in Domesday Book.
Appendix II Emma's and Edith's Household Followers.
Appendix III Genealogical Tables.
Bibliography.
Index.