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Exploring Representations of Women as Teachers and Students in Old English Literature, 730 - 1050 AD by Williams, Abigail

“…Women in Old English texts have various roles ranging from wife and mother to queen and abbess. Although they appear far less often in the surviving source material than men, women play central roles that help to shape the early medieval English kingdoms from the eighth to the eleventh century. …”
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