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Dark Queens
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A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. ''Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life'' Helen Castor ''Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized queens to their proper place in medieval history'' Dan Jones ''Fredegund and Brunhild have finally found a worthy champion'' Literary ReviewBrunhild was a Visigothic 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 for decades. The two queens commanded armies, developed taxation policies, established infrastructure and negotiated with emperors and popes, all the time fighting a gruelling forty-year civil war with each other. Yet after Brunhild and Fredegund''s deaths, their names were consigned to slander and legend.From the tangled primary evidence of Merovingian sources, award-winning writer Shelley Puhak weaves a gripping and intricate tale, its characters driven by ambition, lust and jealousy to acts of treachery and murderous violence. The Dark Queens resurrects these two women in all their complexity, painting a richly detailed portrait of a shadowy era and dispelling some of the stubbornest myths about female power.
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| Author | Puhak, Shelley |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9781801109178 |
| Item Height | 2.9 |
| Item Length | 19.7 |
| Item Width | 13 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Paperbacks |
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