Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern Europe

  • Authors
  • William Layher
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Part of the Queenship and Power book series (QAP)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction
    William Layher
    Pages 1-12
  3. Three Nordic Queens
    William Layher
    Pages 13-28
  4. Sound, Voice, and Vox: The Acoustics of the Self in the Middle Ages
    William Layher
    Pages 29-52
  5. “You Danes Must Do as I Say …”: Queen Agnes and the Regicide of 1286
    William Layher
    Pages 53-89
  6. Voicing and Legacy: Queen Eufemia of Norway
    William Layher
    Pages 91-130
  7. Margareta of Denmark and the Voice of Identity
    William Layher
    Pages 131-171
  8. Afterword
    William Layher
    Pages 173-183
  9. Back Matter
    Pages 185-237
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Europe Familie Focusing identity

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113022
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, New York
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-28927-1
  • Online ISBN 978-0-230-11302-2
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