The little-known lives of women who ruled, schemed, and made peace and war, between the seventh and eleventh centuries: “Meticulously researched.” —Cather

This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging

The first-ever biography of the most powerful woman of tenth-century England.

Klein explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo-Saxon texts as mediatory figures for negotiating sustained tensions and antagonisms among d