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A vivid double biography of two fearless Early Medieval queens and an enthralling journey of discovery across the unfamiliar and bloodsoaked historical landscape of sixthcentury Merovingian France
Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling bewildering horrifying life Helen Castor
Restores two halfforgotten and muchmythologized queens to their proper place in medieval history Dan Jones
A story of scheming and savagery to make Game of Thrones look tame Sarah Gristwood
A remarkable piece of detective work by turns enlightening and shocking Amanda Foreman
Brunhild was a Visigothic princess raised to be married off for the sake of alliancebuilding Her sisterinlaw Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave And yet in sixthcentury Merovingian France where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport these two ironwilled strategists reigned over vast realms for decades changing the face of Europe
The two queens commanded armies developed taxation policies established infrastructure and negotiated with emperors and popes all the time fighting a gruelling fortyyear civil war with each other Yet after Brunhild and Fredegunds deaths their stories were rewritten their names consigned to slander and legend
From the tangled primary evidence of Merovingian sources the works of the chronicler Gregory of Tours and the Latin poet Venantius Fortunatus awardwinning 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
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