Queen Emma and the Vikings: Power, Love, and Greed in 11th Century England
by O'Brien, Harriet
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- ISBN 13
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New York: Bloomsbury USA. As New in As New dust jacket. 2005. First US Edition. Hardcover. Genealogical table . 288 pages. A lively portrait of a tumultuous period replete with conflict and strife, political intrigue and shifting alliances, assassinations and coronations. 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. .
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- Title
- Queen Emma and the Vikings: Power, Love, and Greed in 11th Century England
- Author
- O'Brien, Harriet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New in As New dust jacket
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1582345961
- ISBN 13
- 9781582345963
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury USA
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, HISTORICAL, HISTORY, WORLD
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