A lively portrait of a tumultuous period replete with conflict and strife, political intrigue and shifting alliances, assassinations and coronations. Emma, one of England's most remarkable queens, made her mark on a nation beset by Viking raiders at the end of the Dark Ages, a period often neglected by conventional history. At the center of a triangle of Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans all jostling for control of England, Emma was a political pawn who became a power broker and an unscrupulous manipulator. By birth a ...
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A lively portrait of a tumultuous period replete with conflict and strife, political intrigue and shifting alliances, assassinations and coronations. Emma, one of England's most remarkable queens, made her mark on a nation beset by Viking raiders at the end of the Dark Ages, a period often neglected by conventional history. At the center of a triangle of Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans all jostling for control of England, Emma was a political pawn who became a power broker and an unscrupulous manipulator. By birth a Norman, Emma spent the majority of her life on English soil. She was married to two kings of England and outlived both; she was twice driven into exile; while mourning the untimely loss of one son, she was devastated by the murder of another; she saw two of her sons crowned; she was stripped of her powers when her eldest son became king; and she eventually retired from public life as a dowager queen whose land and wealth had been restored. Regarded by her contemporaries as a generous Christian patron, a regent admired by her subjects, and a Machiavellian mother, Emma was, above all, a survivor: hers was a life marked by dramatic reversals of fortune.
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Add this copy of Queen Emma and the Vikings: Power, Love, and Greed in to cart. $2.00, good condition, Sold by Blue Vase Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Interlochen, MI, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
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Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers and labels. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book First U. S. edition, first printing, hardcover. Map endpapers. xxi, 264 pages. Family Trees, Dramatis Personae, Prologue, Epilogue, Chronology, Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light edgewear. "In Harriet O'Brien's richly detailed biography of Queen Emma, a fascinating portrait of a little-known but remarkable woman emerges. The quintessential monarch, Emma was a political pawn turned master manipulator at the center of a triangle of Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans all jostling for control of eleventh-century England. From child bride to dowager queen, Emma left an indelible mark on a nation beset by Vikings. Fourteen years after her death, it fell prey to her Norman family when William the Conqueror invaded in 1066."
