Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England - Tapa blanda

There is much learning, originality and, indeed, entertainment in Pauline Stafforda s Queen Emma and Queen Edith...This book develops a most interesting subject with learning and insight which illuminate the period as a whole." (English Historical Review) "It provides fascinating insights into medieval family structures, the manipulation of saintsa 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 Stafforda s latest book, Queen Emma and Queen Edith. The sources which provide these riches are varied and Stafforda 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)

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.