Author: O'BRIEN, HARRIET
Title: Queen Emma and the Vikings : Power, Love, and Greed in Eleventh-Century England
Description: New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed To The Trade By Holtzbrinck Publishers 2005. First US Edition. Emma. one of England's most remarkable queens. made her mark on a nation beset by Viking raiders at the end of the Dark Ages. a period often neglected by conventional history. At the center of a triangle of Anglo-Saxons. Vikings. and Normans all jostling for control of England. Emma was a political pawn who became a power broker and an unscrupulous manipulator. By birth a Norman. Emma spent the majority of her life on English soil. She was married to two kings of England and outlived both; she was twice driven into exile; while mourning the untimely loss of one son. she was devastated by the murder of another; she saw two of her sons crowned; she was stripped of her powers when her eldest son became king; and she eventually retired from public life as a dowager queen whose land and wealth had been restored. Regarded by her contemporaries as a generous Christian patron. a regent admired by her subjects. and a Machiavellian mother. Emma was. above all. a survivor: hers was a life marked by dramatic reversals of fortune; 264 pages; Description: 264 p.[4] p of plates : ill. (chiefly col. ) . maps ; 24 cm. Maps on endpapers. Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-253). Subjects: Emma. Queen. consort of Canute I. King of England. d. 1052. Normans --Great Britain --Biography. Queens --Great Britain --Biography. Vikings --England. by Harriet O'brien.ISBN: 1582345961. Weight in Kg appr.:

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