Reflection of the place and role of women in the early feudal society of England in modern Englishlanguage historiography

Authors

  • Maya V. Matveenko Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

women in history, early feudal England, Medieval historiography

Abstract

The article analyzes and studies the main historiographical English-language works related to the place and role of women in early feudal England. There are considered articles written in the period from the 1950s up to the present time. In the analysis of these works has been identified the necessity of writing a general work, able to absorb the achievements of recent years and combine them in a single system, because the only published during this period full generalizing work on the subject, the monograph of Christina Fell «Women in Anglo-Saxon England» does not meet the requirements of modern Medieval studies, and the works that appeared after Fellʼs monograph have a very narrow focus on the chosen topics.

Author Biography

  • Maya V. Matveenko, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    postgraduate student at the department of ancient and medieval history, faculty of history

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2017-12-29

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No. 4 (2017): Journal of the Belarusian State University. History

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World History

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Matveenko, M.V. 2017. Reflection of the place and role of women in the early feudal society of England in modern Englishlanguage historiography. Journal of the Belarusian State University. History. 4 (Dec. 2017), 64–70.