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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"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...
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Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
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IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of the lives of Charlemagne and his subjects in the Frankish empire of the late eighth and early ninth centuries, and includes excerpts from poems, letters, laws, and diaries of the time.
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Strongbow saga volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Halfdan's skills as an archer and a blacksmith win him a position on the crew of a Viking ship in 845 A.D., but as war breaks out in western Frankia he becomes a scout, searching for the Frankish army--and taking captive a young woman who is preparing to be a nun.
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