"This fully-illustrated study addresses the disputed roles of Anglo-Saxon women within medieval scholarship. Originally cast as the companions and equals of men, women have more recently appeared in Anglo-Saxon accounts as servants and slaves, habitually beaten, disregarded and abused. Re-examining an extensive range of source material including wills, charters, letters, chronicles, archaeological discoveries, place-names and poetry, Chr ..."
"This fully-illustrated study addresses the disputed roles of Anglo-Saxon women within medieval scholarship. Originally cast as the companions and equals of men, women have more recently appeared in Anglo-Saxon accounts as servants and slaves, habitually beaten, disregarded and abused. Re-examining an extensive range of source material including wills, charters, letters, chronicles, archaeological discoveries, place-names and poetry, Chr ..."
"Cecily Clark (1926-1992), known for her work as editor of the Peterborough Chronicle and for her extensive researches in Medieval English onomastics, lectured at the Universities of London, Edinburgh and Aberdeen before settling in Cambridge as a Research Fellow. This volume contains a series of Cecily Clark's masterly and innovative essays on personal-naming patterns in post-Conquest England, ranging from case-studies of towns in whic ..."