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Formidable Women of Old England![]() with Dr Sam Newtonat Tranmer House, Sutton Hoo (map)
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10.00 | Coffee on arrival | ||
10.15 | Female Power in Early England | ||
11.15 | Coffee | ||
11.40 | The Daughters of King Anna | ||
12.40 | Lunch break | ||
14:00 | Wuffings and Æscings | ||
15:00 | Tea break | ||
15:15 | Other Formidable Women of Early England | ||
16:15 | Close |
Sam Newton was awarded his Ph.D at the University of East Anglia in 1991 and published his first book, The Origins of Beowulf and the pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia, in 1993. He has lectured widely around the country as a free-lance scholar and has also contributed to many television and radio programmes. His latest book, The Reckoning of King Rædwald, was published in 2003. He is currently a Director of Wuffing Education, NADFAS lecturer, and Time Team historian.
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Ellis Davidson, H., Gods and Myths of Northern Europe (Penguin 1964)
Fairweather, J. [tr.] Liber Eliensis – A History of the Isle of Ely from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century (Boydell 2005)
Farmer, D.H., The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford 1978)
Gallyon, M., The Early Church in Eastern England (Lavenham 1973)
Heaney, S., Beowulf: A New Translation (London 1999)
James, E.,The Franks (Oxford 1988)
Newton, S., The Reckoning of King Rædwald (Redbird 2003)
Rollason, D., Northumbria 500-1100 (Cambridge 2003)
Scarfe, Norman, Suffolk in the Middle Ages (Boydell 1986)
Sherley-Price, L., Bede: A History of the English Church and People (Penguin Classics 1955, 1968)
Stafford, P., Queen Emma and Queen Edith: queenship and women's power in eleventh-century England (Blackwells 1997)
Stafford, P., “Political women in Mercia, eighth to early tenth centuries”, in eds M.P.Brown & C.A.Farr, Mercia, an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe (Leicester University Press 2001)
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Wuffing Education,
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Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 4DX
(tel : 01394 386498)
Email cliff at wuffingeducation.co.uk
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