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The Warrior Queen

- The Life and Legend of Aethelflaed, Daughter of Alfred the Great
Af: Joanna Arman Engelsk Paperback

The Warrior Queen

- The Life and Legend of Aethelflaed, Daughter of Alfred the Great
Af: Joanna Arman Engelsk Paperback
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Æthelflæd, eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, has gone down in history as an enigmatic and almost legendary figure. To the popular imagination, she is the archetypal warrior queen, a Medieval Boudicca, renowned for her heroic struggle against the Danes and her independent rule of the Saxon Kingdom of Mercia. In fiction, however, she has also been cast as the mistreated wife who seeks a Viking lover, and struggles to be accepted as a female ruler in a patriarchal society. The sources from her own time, and later, reveal a more complex, nuanced and fascinating image of the ‘Lady of the Mercians’. A skilled diplomat who forged alliances with neighbouring territories, she was a shrewd and even ruthless leader willing to resort to deception and force to maintain her power. Yet she was also a patron of learning, who used poetic tradition and written history to shape her reputation as a Christian maiden engaged in an epic struggle against the heathen foe. The real Æthelflæd emerges as a remarkable political and military leader, admired in her own time, and a model of female leadership for writers of later generations.
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Æthelflæd, eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, has gone down in history as an enigmatic and almost legendary figure. To the popular imagination, she is the archetypal warrior queen, a Medieval Boudicca, renowned for her heroic struggle against the Danes and her independent rule of the Saxon Kingdom of Mercia. In fiction, however, she has also been cast as the mistreated wife who seeks a Viking lover, and struggles to be accepted as a female ruler in a patriarchal society. The sources from her own time, and later, reveal a more complex, nuanced and fascinating image of the ‘Lady of the Mercians’. A skilled diplomat who forged alliances with neighbouring territories, she was a shrewd and even ruthless leader willing to resort to deception and force to maintain her power. Yet she was also a patron of learning, who used poetic tradition and written history to shape her reputation as a Christian maiden engaged in an epic struggle against the heathen foe. The real Æthelflæd emerges as a remarkable political and military leader, admired in her own time, and a model of female leadership for writers of later generations.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9781445682792
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1445682796
Udg. Dato: 15 maj 2018
Længde: 28mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 129mm
Forlag: Amberley Publishing
Oplagsdato: 15 maj 2018
Forfatter(e): Joanna Arman
Forfatter(e) Joanna Arman


Kategori The Plantagenets & mediaeval England


ISBN-13 9781445682792


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 288


Udgave


Længde 28mm


Bredde 197mm


Højde 129mm


Udg. Dato 15 maj 2018


Oplagsdato 15 maj 2018


Forlag Amberley Publishing

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