The Dark Queens
The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World
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The Dark Queens
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Shelley Puhak
'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Castor
'Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized 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 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.
The two queens commanded armies, developed taxation policies, established infrastructure and negotiated with emperors and popes, all the time fighting a gruelling forty-year civil war with each other. Yet after Brunhild and Fredegund's 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 – 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.
2022 Head of Zeus©2022 Shelley Puhak (P)2022 Head of Zeus
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The narrator however butxher ssome of the names horribly.
King Chilperic would probably better pronounce as CHIL-pe-ric and not chil-PE-ric anf king Sigebert should probably be pronounced SI-ge-bert and not SIEGE-bert as in the English word Siege. The pronunciations align with similar names from modern germanic languages like German where the emphasis ist usually on the first syllable. But these are minor criticism and I might be wrong on ths topic, so all in all 5out of 5 stars.
Interesting narrative, very average narrator
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