Margaret C. Jones
Autor von Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
Über den Autor
Bildnachweis: from author's LinkedIn
Werke von Margaret C. Jones
Getagged
Wissenswertes
- Geburtstag
- 1949
- Geschlecht
- female
- Wohnorte
- Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Alexandria, Egypt - Ausbildung
- Purdue University, PhD
Mitglieder
Rezensionen
Statistikseite
- Werke
- 2
- Mitglieder
- 39
- Beliebtheit
- #376,657
- Bewertung
- 3.4
- Rezensionen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 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.… (mehr)