{"product_id":"queen-emma-and-the-vikings-a-history-of-power-love-and-greed-in-eleventh-century-england","title":"Queen Emma and the Vikings: A History of Power, Love and Greed in Eleventh-Century England","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eQueen Emma and the Vikings: A History of Power, Love and Greed in Eleventh-Century England\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHarriet O'Brien\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781582345963\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBloomsbury USA\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lively portrait of a tumultuous period replete with conflict and strife, political intrigue and shifting alliances, assassinations and coronations.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmma, one of England's most remarkable queens, made her mark on a nation beset by Viking raiders at the end of the Dark Ages, a period often neglected by conventional history. At the center of a triangle of Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans all jostling for control of England, Emma was a political pawn who became a power broker and an unscrupulous manipulator. By birth a Norman, Emma spent the majority of her life on English soil. She was married to two kings of England and outlived both; she was twice driven into exile; while mourning the untimely loss of one son, she was devastated by the murder of another; she saw two of her sons crowned; she was stripped of her powers when her eldest son became king; and she eventually retired from public life as a dowager queen whose land and wealth had been restored. Regarded by her contemporaries as a generous Christian patron, a regent admired by her subjects, and a Machiavellian mother, Emma was, above all, a survivor: hers was a life marked by dramatic reversals of fortune.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Queen Emma and the Vikings: A History of Power, Love and Greed in Eleventh-Century England | Harriet O'Brien | Hardcover | 9781582345963 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks D 1726217","offer_id":48167462764696,"sku":"1726217","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/713vZpvgOTL.jpg?v=1771947102","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/queen-emma-and-the-vikings-a-history-of-power-love-and-greed-in-eleventh-century-england","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}