Ruling Women: Queenship and Gender in Anglo-Saxon LiteratureIn Ruling Women, Stacy S. Klein explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo Saxon texts. Focusing on pre Conquest works ranging from Bede to lfric, Klein argues that Anglo Saxon writers drew upon accounts of legendary royal wives to construct cultural ideals of queenship during a time when that institution was undergoing profound change. Also a study of gender, her book examines how Anglo Saxon writers used women of the highest