King Alfred's nun-daughter – Æthelgifu: First Saxon Abbess, by Deborah M Jones

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Æthelgifu: First Saxon Abbess

Deborah M Jones

Independently published, £7.99, 188 pages

Recent years have seen the royal women of Anglo-Saxon England surge to prominence in a series of significant archaeological and codicological discoveries. In December 2022, researchers at the Bodleian Library in Oxford used new photographic scanning technology to reveal the name of St Eadburg, Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet, written 15 times in a manuscript that is now believed to have been written in her own hand.

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