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Queen Emma and the Vikings

By Harriet O'Brien

Queen Emma and the Vikings

By Harriet O'Brien

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A stunning history of power, love and greed in 11th-century England - the remarkable story of Queen Emma and the Vikings 'Harriet O'Brien recreates this intriguing and complex world with skill and imagination' Daily Telegraph 'O'Brien's story is a dramatic one, and her Queen Emma a commanding, shrewd and manipulative figure ... genuinely powerful' Guardian Emma was one of England's most remarkable queens: a formidable woman who made her mark on a Europe beset by Vikings. By birth a Norman, she married and outlived two kings of England and witnessed the coronations of two of her sons: Harthcnut the Viking and Edward the Confessor. She became an unscrupulous political player and was diversely regarded as a generous Christian patron, the admired co-regent of the nation, and a ruthlessly Machiavellian mother. She was, above all, a survivor: her life was punctuated by dramatic falls, all of which she overcame. Her story is one of power, politics, love, greed and scandal in an England caught between the Dark Ages and the Norman invasion of 1066.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2006-06-19
Publication Date:
2006-06-19
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0747579687
ISBN13:
9780747579687
Weight:
316 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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