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| Datum: | 2018 |
| Titel: | Female Rulership: The Case of Seaxburh, Queen of Wessex |
| Autor*in: | Foerster, Anne |
| Veröffentlicht: | Mittelalter |
| Zitierform: | Anne Foerster, Female Rulership: The Case of Seaxburh, Queen of Wessex, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte 1 (2018), S. 164–168, https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/12691. |
| Serie/Report Nr.: | Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte;1 |
| Beschreibung: | In 672 „Cenwalh passed away, and Seaxburh, his queen, ruled one year after him”.[1] This brief statement reads like many of the other notifications about the death of a ruler and the succession of another in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.[2] Nonetheless, the reported case and its echo in later historiography are worth a closer look. For even though the line of succession in 7th century Wessex was open to quite distant relatives, a king’s widow following her husband to the throne was a rare thing.... |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/80283 |
| Quelle: | http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/12691 |
| Lizenz: | CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported |
| AMAD ID: | 12691 |
| Enthalten in den Sammlungen: | General history of Europe Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte Open Access |
