Æthelflaed and Other Rulers in English Histories, c.900-1150
Æthelflaed and Other Rulers in English Histories, c.900-1150
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英国历史中的安塞尔弗莱德和其他统治者，c.900-1150
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10.1093/ehr/ceac178
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2022
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Winkler E
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这篇文章解释了为什么麦西亚的统治者埃塞尔弗拉德对12世纪英格兰的历史作家很重要。它认为，这些作家评价和比较统治者不是基于性别或血统，而是基于统治者的成就相对于统治者面临的挑战的设置和规模的质量。他们认为埃塞尔贝尔是非凡的，因为她为麦西亚取得的胜利使她有别于其他统治者。文章表明，在12世纪的英国对统治者的态度，过去和现在，需要一个新的理解。它解释了中世纪写作中对统治者的性别评论的缺失，以及性别的非二元概念的存在。它也挑战了一个持久的想法，即拉丁作家强加了一个共同的，威塞克斯主导的国家愿景的英语过去。他们主张麦西亚在埃塞尔弗莱德的唯一统治下独立，这表明英格兰的地区利益在诺曼征服后很长一段时间内仍然存在于历史想象中。
This article explains why Æthelflaed, ruler of Mercia, mattered to writers of history in twelfth-century England. It argues that these writers evaluated and compared rulers based not on sex or bloodline, but on the quality of a ruler’s achievements relative to the set and scale of challenges the ruler faced. They thought Æthelflaed remarkable because her triumphs for Mercia distinguished her from other rulers. The article shows that a new understanding of attitudes in twelfth-century England towards rulers, past and present, is required. It accounts for the absence of gendered comments about rulers, as well as the presence of non-binary concepts of gender, in medieval writing. It also challenges the enduring idea that Latin writers imposed a shared, Wessex-dominated national vision on the English past. They asserted Mercia’s independence under Æthelflaed’s sole rule, which shows that English regional interests persisted in the historical imagination long after the Norman Conquest.