TY  - BOOK
AU  - Puhak,Shelley
TI  - The dark queens: the bloody rivalry that forged the medieval world 
SN  - 9781801109161
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Brunehaut,
KW  - Fredegund,
KW  - Queens
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Merovingians
KW  - History
KW  - To 987
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-346) and index; A wedding in Metz -- Meeting the Franks -- The fall of Charibert -- New alliances -- A missive to Byzantium -- The slave queen -- All the king's men -- The siege -- The witch and the nun -- Back channels -- Uprising -- The laws of sanctuary -- Crime and punishment -- "Wise in counsel" -- Fredegund's grief -- Brunhild in the breach -- The regency -- Set ablaze -- Brunichildis Regina -- The King is dead -- The vexations of King Guntram -- The Gundovald affair -- The diplomatic arts -- The Dukes' revolt -- A royal engagement -- The defiant nuns -- Allies and assassins -- Forlorn little boys -- The fading of the kings -- The dual rule -- Brunhild's battles -- The fall -- Epilogue. Backlash
N2  - The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule. Brunhild was a foreign 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, changing the face of Europe
ER  -