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Emma: The Twice-Crowned Queen: England in the Viking Age
An engagingbiography of the 11th-century English queen who married two English kings and gave birth to two more.In 1002, a beautiful 18-year-old named Emma, the half-Danish sister of the Duke of Normandy and a descendant of Vikings, sailed to England to be the queen of Ethelred the Unready, who needed a Norman alliance against Viking raiders. The political and marital care...more
Paperback, 220 pages
Published
July 1st 2004
by Peter Owen Publishers
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I usually really enjoy histories and I find Medieval Europe particularly facinating. And I really did like the snapshot of a time when Europe was defined more by ethnic groups that nations.
What I didn't like was that I felt Strachan fell short of her thesis. She stated that Emma had real political power. However, the evidence didn't seem to support that. Most of the action involved other players until Emma agreed to be a symbol in her second marriage to a man who already had a h...more
What I didn't like was that I felt Strachan fell short of her thesis. She stated that Emma had real political power. However, the evidence didn't seem to support that. Most of the action involved other players until Emma agreed to be a symbol in her second marriage to a man who already had a h...more
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