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Hwæt! Women, Mead Halls, and Soft Power

Navigating masculine, early medieval political networks as a woman

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Royal Women and the Expansion of the Early English Church

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The Surprising Truth About Early Medieval Misogyny

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Women's History

The Surprising Truth About Early Medieval Misogyny

A gentle invitation to consider complexity over certainty

Jun 13 • Holly A Brown

Hwæt! Women, Mead Halls, and Soft Power

Navigating masculine, early medieval political networks as a woman

Jun 6 • Holly A Brown

Queens as Jezebels

How the trope of the wicked queen crept into early medieval literature

May 23 • Holly A Brown

The erasure of women’s voices from Old English poetry

What if Anon actually was a woman?

May 16 • Holly A Brown

Kingship

The Fragile Myth of the High King

What was a 'bretwalda', really?

Mar 24 • Holly A Brown

A Palimpsest of Royal Mythmaking

Yeavering 'Great Hall Complex'

Feb 21 • Holly A Brown

Did Arthur Actually Exist?

And why I don't think this is the right question to be asking...

Jan 31 • Holly A Brown

What Made a 'Dark Age' King?

It's more complex than Netflix would have us believe...

Jan 24 • Holly A Brown

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