Margaret C. Jones
Autore di Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: from author's LinkedIn
Opere di Margaret C. Jones
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1949
- Sesso
- female
- Luogo di residenza
- Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Alexandria, Egypt - Istruzione
- Purdue University, PhD
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 39
- Popolarità
- #376,657
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 7
Alongside and indeed as integral to her remarkable political and military achievements, Aethelflaed effectively founded or developed many of the towns of the West of England, especially Gloucester, Tamworth, Stafford, Warwick and Chester, thus shaping large parts of the urban pattern of today's England. Yet for large parts of the 1,100 years since her death, her reputation has been overshadowed by those of her famous male relatives, especially of course that of her father. She should be better known. This is a highly readable book, making use of the limited sources about the subject's life to create a proper biography, albeit of course with very many details unknown and unknowable.… (altro)