Shelley Puhak
The Dark Queens: A gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France
The Dark Queens: A gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France
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The Dark Queens is a double biography of two fearless early medieval queens, Brunhild and Fredegund, who reigned over vast realms in Merovingian France. Despite their exclusion from noble succession and royal politics, they were able to change the face of Europe through their ambition, lust, and jealousy. Shelley Puhak's book resurrects these women in all their complexity, painting a detailed portrait of a shadowy era and dispelling myths about female power.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 02 March 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Two fearless early medieval queens are brought to thrilling, bewildering, and horrifying life in this vivid double biography. Brings the Merovingian empire to life in a way that has never been done before.
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.
Brunhild 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, changing the face of Europe.
After Brunhild's and Fredegund's deaths, however, their stories were rewritten, their names 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.
Weight: 298g
Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781801109178
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