STACY S. KLEIN, Ruling Women: Queenship and Gender in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2006. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-268-03310-2. $30.

In Ruling Women, Stacy Klein demonstrates how representations of queens played integral roles in issues that are now recognized as crucial to Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, including 'conversion, social hierarchy, heroism, counsel, idolatry, and lay spirituality'(4). Examining Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, Cynewulf's Elene, Beowulf, and Ælfric's biblical translations, Klein shows how Anglo-Saxon writers manipulated the ...

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