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9780230104655

Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern Europe

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    9780230104655

  • ISBN10:

    0230104657

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-09-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

William Layher is Professor of Medieval German and Medieval Scandinavian Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Map of Medieval Northern Europep. x
Introductionp. 1
The Royal Families of Denmark, Norway, and Swedenp. 10
Three Nordic Queensp. 13
Sound, Voice, and Vox: The Acoustics of the Self in the Middle Agesp. 29
"You Danes Must Do as I Say...": Queen Agnes and the Regicide of 1286p. 53
Voicing and Legacy: Queen Eufemia of Norwayp. 91
Margareta of Denmark and the Voice of Identityp. 131
Afterword: The Queen's Two Voicesp. 173
Notesp. 185
Bibliographyp. 217
Indexp. 235
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