Queen Emma and Queen Edith Queenship and

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.

Pauline Stafford was born and educated in Leeds and received her first degree and doctorate from Oxford University. She now holds a personal Chair at the University of Huddersfield. She is author of numerous articles on early English history, and on the history of early medieval women. Her previous books include Queens, Concubines and Dowagers (1983) and Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (1989). She was consultant editor of The Biographical Dictionary of British Women (1996) and is a member of the editorial Collective of Gender & History. She is married with three children.

List of Figures

vi

Preface

vii

Acknowledgements

x

PART I The Stories

1

(52)

Prologue

3

(3)

Emma and Edith in the Narratives of the Eleventh Century

6

(22)

Emma's and Edith's Narratives

28

(25)

PART II The Structures

53

(154)

The Faces of the Queen

55

(10)

Family: Structures and Ideals

65

(32)

Household, Land and Patronage

97

(65)

Queen and Queenship

162

(31)

The Fluctuating Power of the Queen: Witnessing and Identities

193

(14)

PART III The Lives

207

(73)

Emma

209

(46)

Edith

255

(25)

Appendix I The Lands and Revenues of Edith in Domesday Book

280

(26)

Appendix II Emma's and Edith's Household and Followers

306

(18)

Appendix III Genealogical Tables

324

(4)

Bibliography

328

(34)

Index

362

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

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