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AETHELFLAED: a Summary Bibliography

Most of the works listed here appear in academic journals. A few are accessible online. A short, but fast-growing, list of trade books is given at the end.

Marios Costambeys, Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda] (d. 918). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/8907

Kim Klimek, ‘Aethelflaed : History and Legend,’ Quidditas: The Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 34 (2013) 11-28. Available online at https://humanities.byu.edu/rmmra/pdfs/34.pdf

Brigitte Meijns, ‘The Policy on Relic of Baldwin II of Flanders (879–918), Edward of (899–924) and Æthelflaed of (d. 924) : A Key to Anglo-Flemish Relations?’ In and the continent in the tenth century : studies in honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876-1947), edd. David Rollason, Conrad Leyser, and Hannah Williams, Hannah (Turnhout, 2011), 473-492.

Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh (2015) ‘The occluded role of royal women and lost works of pre-Norman English and Irish art (tenth to twelfth centuries)’, Journal of Medieval History (42:1, 2015), 51-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2015.1107750

Paul E. Szarmach, ‘Æðelflæd of Mercia: mise en page’, in Words and Works: Studies in Medieval and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson, eds. Peter S. Baker and Nicholas Howe (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1998), 105-26.

Mary Dockray-Miller, ‘The Maternal Genealogy of ÆĐelflÆd, Lady of The Mercians,’ in Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England. The New (2000), 43-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-312-29963-7_3

Paul E. Szarmach, “Æðelflæd in the Chronicle,” Newsletter 29.1 (1995), 43.

Catherine Karkov, “Æðelflæd’s Exceptional Coinage?” Old English Newsletter 29.1 (1995): 41. Both available online at http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/archives.php?volume=29&issue=1

Wainwright, “Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians,” in The Anglo-: Studies in Some Aspects of their History and Culture Presented to Bruce Dickins, ed. Peter Clemoes (: Bowes and Bowes, 1959)

Flora Spiegel, ‘The heroic biography of Aethelflaed of Mercia and the Old English Judith : A re- examination,’ Quaestio insularis, 5 (2004) 111-44.

Melanie C. Maddox, ‘Queen or Puppet Lady? : Æthelflaed’s role in the Politics, Economics and Identity of Mercia,’ Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae, 19 (2014), 111-126

Pauline , ‘The Annals of Æthelflæd" : Annals, History and Politics in Early Tenth-Century England,’ in Julia Barrow and Andrew Wareham, (ed.), Myth, rulership, church and charters : essays in honour of Nicholas Brooks (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 101-16.

P. Stafford, ‘Political Women in Mercia, Eighth to Early Tenth Centuries’, in Mercia: an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. M. Brown and C. Farr (2001), pp.35–49. Victoria Thompson, Dying and death in later Anglo-Saxon England (2004), 1-25.

Gunther Wolf, ‘Aethelfled von Mercia und ottonische 'dominae' : zun Rechtscharakter frühmittelalterlicher Frauenherrschaft,’ in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Germanistische Abteilung, 111 (1994), 525-35. Title in English: ‘Æthelflæd of Mercia and the Ottonian 'dominae': on the legal character of early medieval female rule.’ Read online at http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/wolf1995bd2/0012

Richard Coates, ‘Æthelflæd's fortification of Weardburh,’ Notes and Queries, 243 (1998) 8-12.

C. M. Heighway, ‘Anglo-Saxon to ad 1000’, Studies in late Anglo-Saxon settlement, ed. M. L. Faull (1984), 105–26

F. T. Wainwright, ‘Æthelflæd, lady of the Mercians’, Scandinavian England (1975), 305–24

M. Dockray-Miller, ‘The Maternal Genealogy of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians’, in Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England (2000), pp. 43–76

Popular Studies

Margaret Jones, Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians (2018)

Tim Clarkson, Aethelflaed: Lady of the Mercians (2018)

Jane Wolfe, Æthelflæd : royal lady, war lady, (: Fenris, 2001).

Joanna Arman, The Warrior Queen: The Life and Legend of Aethelflaed, Daughter of the Great (2017)

Don Stansbury, The Lady who Fought the (1993)

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