Æthelflaed and other rulers in English histories, c.900–1150
This article explains why Æthelflaed, ruler of Mercia, mattered to writers of history in twelfth-century England. It argues that these writers evaluated and compared rulers based not on sex or bloodline, but on the quality of a ruler’s achievements relative to the set and scale of challenges the rul...
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Oxford University Press
2022
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