Modthryth and the Problem of Peace-Weavers: Women and Political Power in Early Medieval England
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2021.1966966" target="_blank" >10.1080/0013838X.2021.1966966</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Modthryth and the Problem of Peace-Weavers: Women and Political Power in Early Medieval England
Original language description
Modthryth has been largely understood as an early example of a character archetype common in Western culture, the wicked queen. She is read as a parable warning of the dangers of allowing women to exercise power. Such a reading has anachronistically aligned the cultural attitudes of the audience of Beowulf with those found in the works of later chroniclers, such as Roger of Wendover, Matthew Paris, John of Worcester, and William of Malmesbury, whose accounts of historical medieval English queens such as Cynethryth and Ælfthryth, are permeated with this anxiety. However, unlike these later chronicles, Beowulf is positive in its depiction of queens exercising power. In this paper, we argue that the treatment of Modthryth is, in fact, very similar to that of kings in the poem and that she is judged by the same measure and discussed in the same vocabulary as other powerful figures. We argue that the digression should be read in terms of an entirely different cultural issue and one which has been largely ignored: the emotional difficulties of being a peace-weaver.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
English Studies
ISSN
0013-838X
e-ISSN
1744-4217
Volume of the periodical
102
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
637-650
UT code for WoS article
000688307400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85113575715