Queen Emma And The Vikings A History Of Power Love And Greed In Eleventhcentury England Harriet Obrien by Harriet O'brien 9781582345963, 9781596911192, 1582345961, 1596911190 instant download after payment.

First published in the United States by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2005. This paperback edition published in 2006.
In this richly detailed biography, a fascinating portrait of one of England’s most remarkable queens emerges. The quintessential monarch, Emma was a political pawn turned master manipulator at the center of a triangle of Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans, all jostling for control of eleventh-century England. She married, and outlived, two English kings, saw two of her sons crowned and enthroned, and was the great-aunt of William the Conqueror. Regarded by her contemporaries as a generous Christian patron, an admired regent, and a Machiavellian mother, Emma was above all a survivor, and her legacy lived on in the Norman rule of England.