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Puhak, Shelley.
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Brunehaut, Queen, consort of Sigebert, King of Austrasia, 534-613.
Fredegund, Queen, consort of Chilperic I, King of Neustria, -597.
Queens -- France -- To 1500 -- Biography.
Merovingians -- France -- Biography.
France -- History -- To 987.
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Puhak, Shelley.
Brunehaut, Queen, consort of Sigebert, King of Austrasia, 534-613.
Fredegund, Queen, consort of Chilperic I, King of Neustria, -597.
Queens -- France -- To 1500 -- Biography.
Merovingians -- France -- Biography.
France -- History -- To 987.
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The dark queens : the bloody rivalry that forged the medieval world / Shelley Puhak.
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Puhak, Shelley.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
Call #:
944
.013
P978d
Subjects
Brunehaut, Queen, consort of Sigebert, King of Austrasia, 534-613.
Fredegund, Queen, consort of Chilperic I, King of Neustria, -597.
Queens -- France -- To 1500 -- Biography.
Merovingians -- France -- Biography.
France -- History -- To 987.
ISBN:
9781635574913 (hc.)
Description:
xvi, 367 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, portraits (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Brunhild was a Spanish 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 the 6th-century Merovingian Empire, 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, 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 years-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 Brunhild and Fredegund's deaths -- one gentle, the other horrific -- their stories were rewritten, their names consigned to slander and legend. In 'The Dark Queens,' award-winning writer Shelley Puhak sets the record straight. She resurrects two very real women in all their complexity, painting a richly detailed portrait of an unfamiliar time and striking at the roots of some of our culture?s stubbornest myths about female power. 'The Dark Queens' offers proof that the relationships between women can transform the world."--Goodreads.
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