The dark queens : the bloody rivalry that forged the medieval world /

The dark queens : the bloody rivalry that forged the medieval world /

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Author / Creator:	Puhak, Shelley, author.
Imprint:	New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xvi, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Brunehaut, -- Queen, consort of Sigebert, King of Austrasia, -- 534-613. Fredegund, -- Queen, consort of Chilperic I, King of Neustria, -- -597. Brunehaut, -- Queen, consort of Sigebert, King of Austrasia, -- 534-613. Fredegund, -- Queen, consort of Chilperic I, King of Neustria, -- -597. Queens -- France -- Biography. Merovingians. Merovingians. Queens. France -- History -- To 987. France. Biography. Biography Biographies. History. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12723649

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ISBN:	9781801109161 1801109168 9781635574913 1635574919
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index.
Summary:	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.

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