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Medieval Women looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women.Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and atti...
A Social History of Women in England, 450-1500
Medieval Women looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women. The book opens with the coming of the Anglo-Sax...
Social History Of Women In England 450-1500
Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the worl...
Essays Presented to Henrietta Leyser
This volume focuses on the paradox of motherhood in the European Middle Ages: to be a mother is at once to hold great power, and by the same token to ...
'Here lies our leader all cut down, the valiant man in the dust.' The elegiac words of the Battle of Maldon, an epic poem written to celebrate the bra...
A Journey to the Seven Kingdoms at the Time of Bede
Written by the Oxford historian Henrietta Leyser, BEDA is a gazetteer to the remaining Anglo-Saxon ruins in England, many of them from the time of the...
A Study of Religious Communities in Western Europe, 1000-1150
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Invasion and integration
Roman Britain - Anglo-Saxons - Vikings - Normans - Origins of the names of the days of the week - Viking longships - Viking funerals - Viking gods & r...