The Dark Queens The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World - Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction

"The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule. Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet-in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport-these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms, changing the face of Europe. The two queens commanded armies and negotiated with kings and popes. They formed coalitions and broke them, mothered children and lost them. They fought a decades-long civil war-against each other. With ingenuity and skill, they battled to stay alive in the game of statecraft, and in the process laid the foundations of what would one day be Charlemagne's empire. Yet after the queens' deaths-one gentle, the other hor

ISBN:	9781432899332
Publisher:	Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, Gale Cengage Learning
Imprint:	Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, Gale Cengage Learning
Published date:	13 Jul 2022
DEWEY:	944.013
DEWEY edition:	23/eng/20220217
Language:	English
Number of pages:	cm.
Weight:	726g
Height:	216mm
Width:	136mm
Spine width:	30mm

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