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The Dark Queens

The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

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The Dark Queens

Auteur(s): Shelley Puhak
Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell
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“A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life.” (Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times best-selling author of Hidden Figures)

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.

The two queens commanded armies and negotiated with kings and popes. They formed coalitions and broke them, mothered children and lost them. They fought a decades-long civil war - against each other. With ingenuity and skill, they battled to stay alive in the game of statecraft and in the process laid the foundations of what would one day be Charlemagne's empire. Yet after the queens' deaths - one gentle, the other horrific - their stories were rewritten, their names consigned to slander and legend.

In The Dark Queens, award-winning writer Shelley Puhak sets the record straight. She resurrects two very real women in all their complexity, painting a richly detailed portrait of an unfamiliar time and striking at the roots of some of our culture's stubbornest myths about female power. The Dark Queens offers proof that the relationships between women can transform the world.

©2022 Shelley Puhak (P)2022 Audible, Inc.
Europe Femmes Moyen Âge Politique et militantisme Royauté
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Very interesting, it is obviously hard to stay away from filling in the unknown history of people from so long ago but the author does a fairly good job at this
I certainly could have gone without the lecture on how hard life is for women.
The authors argument was meaningless and unnecessary.
I have no idea what Elizabeth I and Mary of Scotland had to do with anything. They were never political rivals.
I too read a great many books when I was young, and still do, but I like to think that I'm not being biased, and read books on both men and women. This is not what the author does, so I don't know how she can have a clear view of the world!

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Another hidden gem! Game of Thrones in real life. A colourful reconstruction of the long lost and fascinating history of two women who not only survived (until they died of course) in the Merovingian time, but ended up at the height of power for two competing kingdoms. *** possible spoiler*** After their death, one being unjustly and brutally murdered, and another died of a peaceful death whom she did not really deserve, their stories were then hushed up and altered by their descendants and following dynasties. Well researched and read like a novel, full of treachery, scheming and assassinations.

Highly recommend!

Game of Thrones in real life

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