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Queen Emma and the Vikings: The Woman Who Shaped the Events of 1066

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Queen Emma and the Vikings: The Woman Who Shaped the Events of 1066 - O'Brien, Harriet
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Emma was one of England's most remarkable queens: a formidable woman who made her mark on a Europe beset by Vikings. By birth a Norman, she married and outlived two kings of England and witnessed the coronations of two of her sons: Harthcnut the Viking and Edward the Confessor. She became an unscrupulous political player and was diversely regarded as a generous Christian patron, the admired co-regent of the nation, and a ruthlessly Machiavellian mother. She was, above all, a survivor: her life was punctuated by dramatic ...

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Queen Emma and the Vikings: The Woman Who Shaped the Events of 1066 2006, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London

ISBN-13: 9780747579687

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