Anglo-Saxon women
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Women in Anglo-Saxon England were near equal companions to the males in their lives, such as husbands and brothers, much more than in any other era before modern time. This status of equality was shown up until the Norman Conquest of 1066, at which point a military society took women to be unimportant.
“She was both an entity and a nonentity. She was both valued and valueless. She was a guardian of the home and at the same time feared to be the destroyer of the home. She was loved and hated; she was sought out and hidden away; she was praised and she was scorned. She was condemned by theologians and yet these same male theologians raised her to the altar acclaiming her to be a saint. She was both the Destroyer of Mankind (as the fallen Eve) and she was Mankind’s savior (the Mother of God).” (Frederick Ide, 1983)
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