Queen Emma and the Vikings: A History of Power, Love and Greed in Eleventh-Century England
Harriet O'Brien
First published in the United States by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2005. This paperback edition published in 2006.
In this richly detailed biography, a fascinating portrait of one of England’s most remarkable queens emerges. The quintessential monarch, Emma was a political pawn turned master manipulator at the center of a triangle of Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans, all jostling for control of eleventh-century England. She married, and outlived, two English kings, saw two of her sons crowned and enthroned, and was the great-aunt of William the Conqueror. Regarded by her contemporaries as a generous Christian patron, an admired regent, and a Machiavellian mother, Emma was above all a survivor, and her legacy lived on in the Norman rule of England.
In this richly detailed biography, a fascinating portrait of one of England’s most remarkable queens emerges. The quintessential monarch, Emma was a political pawn turned master manipulator at the center of a triangle of Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans, all jostling for control of eleventh-century England. She married, and outlived, two English kings, saw two of her sons crowned and enthroned, and was the great-aunt of William the Conqueror. Regarded by her contemporaries as a generous Christian patron, an admired regent, and a Machiavellian mother, Emma was above all a survivor, and her legacy lived on in the Norman rule of England.
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Año:
2006
Editorial:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
296
ISBN 10:
1596911190
ISBN 13:
9781596911192
Archivo:
PDF, 14.80 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2006