And as a young man, he sat at the elbow of his powerful paternal aunt, Æthelflæd, who ruled over the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. When Edward the Elder died in 924, Athelstan was quickly ...

“Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It” is a fresh perspective on known personalities (Æthelflæd of Mercia, Jadwiga of Poland) and an illuminating ...