Название: The Dark Queens: A gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France
Автор: Shelley Puhak
Издательство: Apollo
ISBN: 180110915X
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Размер: 14,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.