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Medieval Women

By: Henrietta Leyser

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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 attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat. The intellectual and spiritual worlds of medieval women are also explored.Based on an abundance of research from the last twenty-five years, Medieval Women celebrates the diversity and vitality of English women's lives in the Middle Ages. Medieval Women is the best history book I've read for years, full of stories and surprises and written with gentle elegance from enormous knowledge' Sue Gaisford, Independent

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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1842126121

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9781842126127

Medieval Women

A Social History of Women in England, 450-1500

By: Henrietta Leyser

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Medieval Women

A Social History of Women in England, 450-1500

By: Henrietta Leyser

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-Saxons to England in the fifth century and looks at the variety of sources that can throw light on the lives and contributions to their society of women in the Dark Ages. It moves into the Anglo-Norman period with an examination of what 1066 may have meant for women. The focus then moves to problems and attitudes fundamental to 'everywoman': medieval attitudes to sex, marriage and motherhood; and the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat. The book closes with an exploration of the intellectual and spiritual worlds of medieval women. Each chapter is accompanied by substantial extracts from primary sources, which vividly illustrate medieval thought and assumptions.

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337

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312212798

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9780312212797

Medieval Women

Social History Of Women In England 450-1500

By: Henrietta Leyser

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Medieval Women

Social History Of Women In England 450-1500

By: Henrietta Leyser

Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat. The intellectual and spiritual worlds of medieval women are also explored. MEDIEVAL WOMEN celebrates the diversity and vitality of English women's lives in the Middle Ages.

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Hachette UK

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1780226535

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9781780226538

Beda

A Journey to the Seven Kingdoms at the Time of Bede

By: Henrietta Leyser

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Beda

A Journey to the Seven Kingdoms at the Time of Bede

By: Henrietta Leyser

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 Venerable Bede. For those who have bought Simon Jenkins' 100 Best Churches and now want something different, this is an invaluable window onto the world of the author of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Concentrating on Bede himself (our most valuable historical source on Anglo Saxon England, and author of books that played a key role in the development of English national identity), BEDA is an accessible history and a guidebook simultaneously. Since Sr Benedicta Ward's book on Bede, with its endorsement by Rowan Williams, general interest in Anglo-Saxon Britain has been growing. BEDA serves as a perfect introduction to the subject, and is the only book of its kind.

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328

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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178185386X

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9781781853863

China's Policymaking for Regional Economic Cooperation

By: Yang Jiang,HENRIETTA LEYSER

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China's Policymaking for Regional Economic Cooperation

By: Yang Jiang,HENRIETTA LEYSER

Using first-hand interview data, Yang Jiang reveals the key trends of China's trade and financial politics after its WTO accession. In particular, she highlights the influence of competing domestic interests, government agencies and different ideas on China's foreign economic policy.

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331

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Springer

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1137347600

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9781137347602

A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons

By: Henrietta Leyser

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A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons

By: Henrietta Leyser

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 bravery of an English army defeated by Viking raiders in 991, emerge from a diverse literature – including Beowulf and Bede's Ecclesiastical History – produced by the peoples known as the Anglo-Saxons: Germanic tribes who migrated to Britain from Lower Saxony and Denmark in the early fifth century CE. The era once known as the 'Dark Ages' was marked by stunning cultural advances, and Henrietta Leyser here offers a fresh analysis of exciting recent discoveries made in the archaeology and art of the Anglo-Saxon world. Arguing that the desperate struggle (led by Alfred the Great) against the Vikings helped define a distinctively English sensibility, the author explores relations with the indigenous British, the Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity, the ascendancy of Mercia and the rise of Wessex. This vivid history evokes both the emergent kingdoms of Alfred and Offa and the golden treasures of Sutton Hoo. It will appeal to students of early medieval history and to all those who wish to understand how England was born.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786721406

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A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons

By: Henrietta Leyser

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Beda

A Journey to the Seven Kingdoms at the Time of Bede

By: Henrietta Leyser

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Head of Zeus

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1781853886

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Presenting the Past

Invasion and integration

By: Haydn Middleton,Henrietta Leyser

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Presenting the Past

Invasion and integration

By: Haydn Middleton,Henrietta Leyser

Roman Britain - Anglo-Saxons - Vikings - Normans - Origins of the names of the days of the week - Viking longships - Viking funerals - Viking gods & religion - Tree of creation (Yggdrasill) - Viking Dublin - Anglo Saxon year - ; Includes Alfred the Great - Thomas Becket depicted in the stained glass windows of Canterbury Cathedral.

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019913300X

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