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In Ruling Women, Stacy S. Klein explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo-Saxon texts. Focusing on pre-Conquest works ranging from Bede to lfric, Klein argues that Anglo-Saxon writers drew upon accounts of legendary royal wives to construct cultural ideals of queenship during a time when that institution was undergoing profound change.

Also a study of gender, her book examines how Anglo-Saxon writers used women of the highest social rank to forge broader cultural ideals of femininity, even as they used female voices to articulate far less comfortable social truths. Capitalizing on queens' strong associations with intercession, Anglo-Saxon writers consistently looked to royal women as mediatory figures for negotiating sustained tensions, and sometimes overt antagonisms, among different peoples, institutions, and systems of belief. Yet as authors appropriated legendary queens and inserted them into contemporary Anglo-Saxon culture, these royal "peaceweavers" simultaneously threatened to destroy existing unities and to expose the fragility of seemingly entrenched social formations.

Drawing on the strengths of historical, typological, and literary criticism, feminist theory, and cultural studies, Ruling Women offers us a way to understand Anglo-Saxon texts as both literary monuments and historical documents, and thus to illuminate the ideological fissures and cultural stakes of Anglo-Saxon literary practice.

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  • Title Ruling Women: Queenship and Gender in Anglo-Saxon Literature
  • Author Stacy S. Klein
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
  • Publication date 2006-04-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780268033101 / 0268033102
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.76 x 0.78 in (22.81 x 17.17 x 1.98 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex role in literature, Women in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006003879
  • Dewey Decimal Code 829.093

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  • Choice, 11/01/2006, Page 483

About the author

Stacy S. Klein is associate professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles on Old English poetry, early medieval biblical translation, and Anglo-Saxon femininity.

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