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| Datum: | 2018 |
| Titel: | The King’s Wife in Wessex: The Tale of Wicked Queen Eadburh |
| Autor*in: | Foerster, Anne |
| Veröffentlicht: | Mittelalter |
| Zitierform: | Anne Foerster, The King’s Wife in Wessex: The Tale of Wicked Queen Eadburh, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte 1 (2018), S. 169–173, https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/12694. |
| Serie/Report Nr.: | Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte;1 |
| Beschreibung: | Studies on queenship in early medieval Wessex are usually bound to mention Queen Eadburh, whose presumptuous behaviour and wicked actions allegedly enticed the people of her husband’s kingdom to categorically deny any king’s wife the title of a queen and the throne beside the king’s.[1] Writing roughly a century after this queen’s lifetime, Asser, King Alfred’s biographer, is the first to pay closer attention to Eadburh. According to his late ninth century Vita Ælfredi regis, this woman immen... |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/80284 |
| Quelle: | http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/12694 |
| Lizenz: | CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported |
| AMAD ID: | 12694 |
| Enthalten in den Sammlungen: | General history of Europe Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte Open Access |
