Rebecca Hardie, "thelfld, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2021)
\xc6thelfl\xe6d (c. 870\u2013918), political leader, military strategist, and administrator of law, is one of the most important ruling women in English history. Despite her multifaceted roles and family legacy, however, her reign and relationship with other women in tenth-century England have never been the subject of a book-length study.\xa0\nThis interdisciplinary collection of essays redresses a notable hiatus in scholarship of early medieval England.\xa0\xc6thelfl\xe6d, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England\xa0(Medieval Institute Publications, 2021)argues for a reassessment of women\u2019s political, military, literary, and domestic agency. It invites deeper reflection on the female kinships, networks, and communities that give meaning to \xc6thelfl\xe6d\u2019s life, and through this shows how medieval history can invite new engagements with the past.\nRebecca Hardie is a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universit\xe4t, Berlin, and the Managing Editor of the\xa0Living Handbook of Temporal Communities\xa0in the Excellence Cluster 2020 \u201cTemporal Communities.\u201d\nBecky Straple-Sovers\xa0is a medievalist and freelance editor who earned her Ph.D. in English at Western Michigan University in 2021. Her research interests include bodies, movement, gender, and sexuality in literature, as well as poetry of the First World War and the public humanities. She can be found on Twitter @restraple.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies