Pauline Stafford facts for kids

Pauline Stafford is a very respected historian. She teaches about history at Liverpool University and Leeds University in England. She used to be a leader at the Royal Historical Society, which is a big group for historians.

What Pauline Stafford Studies

Professor Stafford loves to study history. She focuses on the lives of women and how gender roles worked in England. This covers a long period, from the 700s to the early 1100s.

She also studies similar topics for the Franks, who were a powerful group in Europe. Her research also looks at the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. These are old records that tell us about England's history after King Alfred the Great.

Her Education Journey

Pauline Stafford studied medieval history at Oxford University. For her PhD, which is a very high university degree, she wrote about King Aethelraed the Unready.

Her teachers, Pierre Chaplais, Henry Loyn, and Karl Leyser, helped her with her important research.

Important Books and Ideas

Professor Stafford has written many books and articles. Here are some of her well-known works:

• Her book After Alfred: Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and Chroniclers, 900-1150 (2020) looks at how history was recorded in England after King Alfred. ISBN: 9780198859642
• In Queen Emma and Queen Edith: queenship and women's power in eleventh-century England (1997), she explored the lives of powerful queens in England during the 1000s.
• She also wrote Queens, Concubines and Dowagers. The Kings's Wife in the Early Middle Ages (1983). This book explores the different roles and powers of women connected to kings in early medieval times.
• Her work Gender, Family and the Legitimation of Power: England from the Ninth to Early Twelfth Century (2006) gathers many of her essays about how family and gender influenced power in England.

Her research helps us understand more about women's roles and how power worked in early medieval England.