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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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