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| Genre/forme : | Biography |
|---|---|
| Format – détails additionnels : | Online version: Strachan, Isabella. Emma, the twice-crowned queen. London : Peter Owen Publishers ; Chester Springs, PA : distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions, 2004 (OCoLC)644151169 |
| Personne nommée : | Emma, Queen consort of Canute I King of England; Emma, Queen consort of Canute I King of England |
| Type d’ouvrage : | Biographie |
| Format : | Livre |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Isabella Strachan |
| ISBN : | 0720612217 9780720612219 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 53911941 |
| Description : | 192 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 22 cm. |
| Contenu : | Map of North-western Europe in the Eleventh Century -- Dramatis Personae -- Ethelred the King -- Edmund Ironside -- Canute the King -- Emma the Queen Mother -- Edward the King and Edith the Queen -- After Emma: From Saxon to Norman -- Family Trees of the Houses of Wessex, Denmark and Godwin in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries -- Dates of the Principal Events of Emma's Life -- Remains and Memorials. |
| Responsabilité : | Isabella Strachan. |
Résumé :
In 1002, a beautiful eighteen-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 career on which Emma embarked was to be unique for an English queen. Before it was over she would have married two kings, Ethelred and the Danish Canute, and would have given birth to two more, Edward the Confessor and Hardecanute. If Ethelred showed little interest in Emma, her second marriage was scarcely happier. Canute remained joined in a 'handfast' union (one without the Church's full approval) to Elgiva, his first love and the mother of several of his children. From her home in Winchester, the Saxon capital, Emma operated as a significant political figure in her own right. Her writings suggest that she was a Danish nationalist who wished to see England joined with Viking Denmark. But, ultimately, it was her great-nephew, William the Conqueror, who would decide the destiny of England in 1066. Emma's queenship stood at the meeting point of three cultures of the early Middle Ages in England: Saxon, Viking and Norman. This study of her reign, based on contemporary writings and the work of modern scholars, provides a captivating picture of a brutal yet pious era.
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