Queen Emma and the Vikings : A History of Power, Love and Greed in Eleventh-Century England

from EowynA

The queen at the center of this book does not speak in her own words, only by her sometimes briefly noted actions. She was the Norman wife and Queen of King Aethelred the Unready. After his death, she married Cnut, who was the next ruler of most of England. Her sons by Aethelred, Edward and Alfre...

from EowynA

The queen at the center of this book does not speak in her own words, only by her sometimes briefly noted actions. She was the Norman wife and Queen of King Aethelred the Unready. After his death, she married Cnut, who was the next ruler of most of England. Her sons by Aethelred, Edward and Alfre...

from careburpee

Quick Version A history of Emma, Norman wife of two kings of England (one Anglo-Saxon and one Dane), mother of two kings of England, and great-aunt of William the Conqueror. Long Version Emma is every historian's dream subject. Born into a position destined to make her a pawn in the power plays o...

from DinadansFriend

I wish this had been a better book. It could have been so, if the author had reinforced his trot through what we learned from William of Malmesbury and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle with a good deal more about the role of regal women in the English society of the time, and contrasted that with the ro...

from Meggo

An ambitious project, to write a biography of this early medieval queen, that is hamstrung somewhat by the paucity of source material. However it is well researched based on the material that does exist, and provides a glimpse into a fascinating - and formative - period in English history.