"These crucial smaller studies, and Mathilda's regular appearance in documentary sources, has not ensured her a place of centrality in modern memory. The purpose of this study is to redress that imbalance. It is organized in a way that best reveals Mathilda in action: through a series of thematic chapters mean to uncover her in context."
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"We're delighted to see Laura Gathagan present her book, The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, to Véronique Gazeau (Emerita, Universite de Caen and President of the Annales Normandie) at Mathilda's grave during the city of Caen's 1,000 years celebration! [image or embed]- Boydell & Brewer (@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social) Apr 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM"
Mathilda of Flanders served as Duchess of Normandy and became Queen of England after the Norman Conquest. She appears frequently in documentary sources and engaged directly in administrative and public roles alongside her husband. Mathilda managed estates, participated in governance, and exercised dynastic and ceremonial functions that projected authority. Her patronage of religious foundations and presence in official records reflect sustained political agency. Documentary traces and thematic evidence reveal an active, influential medieval queen whose career reshaped Anglo‑Norman rulership and whose public actions embodied conquest and female power in the eleventh century.
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