Download or read book Women of Power in Anglo Saxon England written by Annie Whitehead and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known lives of women who ruled, schemed, and made peace and war, between the seventh and eleventh centuries: “Meticulously researched.” —Catherine Hanley, author of Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior Many Anglo-Saxon kings are familiar. Æthelred the Unready is one—but less is written about his wife, who was consort of two kings and championed one of her sons over the others, or about his mother, who was an anointed queen and powerful regent, but was also accused of witchcraft and regicide. A royal abbess educated five bishops and was instrumental in deciding the date of Easter; another took on the might of Canterbury and Rome and was accused by the monks of fratricide. Royal mothers wielded power: Eadgifu, wife of Edward the Elder, maintained a position of authority during the reigns of both her sons. Æthelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, was a queen in all but name, while few have heard of Queen Seaxburh, who ruled Wessex, or Queen Cynethryth, who issued her own coinage. She, too, was accused of murder, and was also, like many of the royal women, literate and highly educated. Ranging from seventh-century Northumbria to eleventh-century Wessex and making extensive use of primary sources, Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England examines the lives of individual women in a way that has often been done for the Anglo-Saxon men but not for their wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters.
Download or read book Saxon s Lady written by Stephanie James and published by Harlequin Books. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saxon s Lady written by Stephanie James and published by Harlequin Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women in Anglo Saxon England written by Christine E. Fell and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saxon Lady written by Margo Maguire and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn to her avowed enemy Baron Mathieu Fitz Autier expected some resistance when he staked his claim to the Saxon land he’d won in battle. But he never imagined that the former lady of the manor would have the courage to fight back—with an arrow aimed at his head! Lady Aelia saw her world slipping away as the Normans took control of her beloved home. Worse, she was drawn to Fitz Autier—her avowed enemy. She would not give in to the passion she sensed in this fierce warrior: not when he was honor-bound to deliver her to a Norman king. The journey ahead was sure to test them both beyond reckoning.
Download or read book Anglo Saxon Women and the Church written by Stephanie Hollis and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1992 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the position of women in the 8th and 9th centuries as defined by the literature of the early church.
Download or read book Founder Fighter Saxon Queen written by Margaret C. Jones and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the daughter of Alfred the Great, who fought against Viking invaders and ruled a kingdom in the tenth century. Alfred the Great’s daughter defied all expectations of a well-bred Saxon princess. The first Saxon woman ever to rule a kingdom, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, led her army in battle against Viking invaders. She further broke with convention by arranging for her daughter to succeed her on the throne of Mercia. To protect her people and enable her kingdom in the Midlands to prosper, Aethelflaed rebuilt Chester and Gloucester, and built seven entirely new English towns. In so doing she helped shape our world today. This book brings Aethelflaed’s world to life, from her childhood in time of war to her remarkable work as ruler of Mercia. The final chapter traces her legend, from medieval paintings to novels and contemporary art, illustrating the impact of a legacy that continues to be felt to this day.
Download or read book thelfl d written by Tim Clarkson and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the Lady of the Mercians. At the end of the ninth century AD, a large part of what is now England was controlled by the Vikings – heathen warriors from Scandinavia who had been attacking the British Isles for more than a hundred years. Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, was determined to regain the conquered lands but his death in 899 meant that the task passed to his son Edward. In the early 900s, Edward led a great fightback against the Viking armies. He was assisted by the English rulers of Mercia: Lord Æthelred and his wife Æthelflæd (Edward's sister). After her husband's death, Æthelflæd ruled Mercia on her own, leading the army to war and working with her brother to achieve their father's aims. Known to history as the Lady of the Mercians, she earned a reputation as a competent general and was feared by her enemies. She helped to save England from the Vikings and is one of the most famous women of the Dark Ages. This book, published 1100 years after her death, tells her remarkable story.
Download or read book Lady Godiva written by John B. Marsh and published by London : E. Stock. This book was released on 1889 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peace weavers and Shield maidens written by Kathleen Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the earliest Englishwomen; the part they played in the making of England, what they did in peace and war, the impressions they left in Britain and on the continent, how they were recorded in chronicles and how they come alive in heroic verse and jokes.
Download or read book NORWYCK S LADY written by Margo Maguire and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she woke up, she realized she didn’t remember anything. She couldn’t remember who she was, where she was going or where she had been when she blanked out. Fortunately for her, she ended up at Earl Norwyck’s castle?a storm had destroyed her boat, and the earl had found her stranded and taken her home. This woman, now going by Marguerite, finds herself attracted to the calm yet caring earl. And, despite his suspicion that she is lying about her amnesia and has come to spy, the earl decides to kiss her.
Download or read book Saxon Lady Mills Boon Historical written by Margo Maguire and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn to her avowed enemy Baron Mathieu Fitz Autier expected some resistance when he staked his claim to the Saxon land he'd won in battle. But he never imagined that the former lady of the manor would have the courage to fight back–with an arrow aimed at his head!
Download or read book Ladykiller written by Samantha Kroese and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young half-Elf known as Ladykiller leads dual lives. As Ladykiller: he is a renowned assassin for The Shadowed Divide, the world's elite assassin guild. Handsome and gifted with the mysterious magic of the Night Creatures, he is a blood-drinking charmer. Seductive and deadly, he earned the title Ladykiller, with his irresistible nature toward noblewomen and easily killing them for contract.As Onyx: he is the devout protector of the only person in the world that matters to him, his younger brother Ruel. Ruel daydreams of being a knight and pursuing justice, quite the opposite of what the Divide looks for in an assassin. Onyx does his best to keep his brother close while not letting the dregs of their criminal environment destroy the good in Ruel.With the Divide under attack, the brothers scatter. They discover that life outside the Divide's protection is wrought with danger as well. Will Onyx choose the life he enjoys as Ladykiller, or save his brother from a predator from the past?
Download or read book The Anglo Saxon Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The covers are reproductions of rare bookbindings. Each volume has "Note on the binding ... By Cyril Davenport."
Download or read book Take Back the Skies written by Lucy Saxon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate to escape an arranged marriage and the life her high-ranking government official father planned for her, Cat Hunter does the unthinkable. She runs away from her homeland Tellus, disguises herself as a boy, and stows away on an air ship. She's ready for life in a new land where the general population isn't poverty stricken and at the mercy of the cruel officials. What she isn't quite ready for is meeting Fox, a crew member aboard the Stormdancer-which turns out to be a smugglers' ship. So begins an epic adventure that spans both land and sea. This explosive debut starts a unique six-book series. Each novel will be set in a different land within the Tellus world, with repeating characters and related, nonlinear storylines that combine to create a one-of-a-kind, addictive reading experience.
Download or read book The Lady Lies written by Samantha Saxon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lady s Maid s Bell written by Edith Wharton and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT was the autumn after I had the typhoid. I'd been three months in hospital, and when I came out I looked so weak and tottery that the two or three ladies I applied to were afraid to engage me. Most of my money was gone, and after I'd boarded for two months, hanging about the employment-agencies, and answering any advertisement that looked any way respectable, I pretty nearly lost heart, for fretting hadn't made me fatter, and I didn't see why my luck should ever turn. It did though—or I thought so at the time. A Mrs. Railton, a friend of the lady that first brought me out to the States, met me one day and stopped to speak to me: she was one that had always a friendly way with her. She asked me what ailed me to look so white, and when I told her, "Why, Hartley," says she, "I believe I've got the very place for you. Come in to-morrow and we'll talk about it."
