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The Dark Queens : : the Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

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A wedding in Metz -- Meeting the Franks -- The fall of Charibert -- New alliances -- A missive to Byzantium -- The slave queen -- All the king's men -- The siege -- The witch and the nun -- Back channels -- Uprising -- The laws of sanctuary -- Crime and punishment -- "Wise in counsel" -- Fredegund's grief -- Brunhild in the breach -- The regency -- Set ablaze -- Brunichildis Regina -- The King is dead -- The vexations of King Guntram -- The Gundovald affair -- The diplomatic arts -- The Dukes' revolt -- A royal engagement -- The defiant nuns -- Allies and assassins -- Forlorn little boys -- The fading of the kings -- The dual rule -- Brunhild's battles -- The fall -- Epilogue. Backlash.
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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PUBLISHED
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2022]
Year Published: 2022
Description: xvi, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781801109161
1801109168
9781635574913
1635574919

SUBJECTS
Brunehaut, -- Queen, consort of Sigebert, King of Austrasia, -- 534-613.
Fredegund, -- Queen, consort of Chilperic I, King of Neustria, -- -597.
Queens -- France -- Biography.
Merovingians.
France -- History -- To 987.
Biographies.