Layher Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern Europe

2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-11302-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 237 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Queenship and Power

This book examines female lordship and the power of the political voice in medieval Northern Europe, focusing on three prominent, foreign-born queens of medieval Scandinavia - Agnes of Denmark (d. 1304), Eufemia of Norway (d. 1312) and Margareta of Denmark/Sweden (d. 1412) - who acted as cultural mediators and initiators of political change.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Layher, W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Royal Families of Denmark, Norway and Sweden Three Nordic Queens Sound, voice and vox : The Acoustics of the Self in the Middle Ages 'You Danes must do as I say...': Queen Agnes and the Regicide of 1286 Voicing and Legacy: Queen Eufemia of Norway Margareta of Denmark and the Voice of Identity Afterword: The Queen's Two Voices

Über Autor(innen)

WILLIAM LAYHER is Professor of Medieval German and Medieval Scandinavian Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.