🎧 The Queens Who Fought for 40 Years
🎧 Gone Medieval • 30m
We've all heard epic tales of early medieval kings, but what about the queens? It doesn't get much more spectacularly brutal than Brunhild and Fredegund, two sixth century queens who fought a bloody civil war against one another that lasted no less than four decades.
The rival matriarchs also commanded armies, developed taxation policies, established infrastructure and negotiated with emperors & popes... yet their story has been largely forgotten, until now. In this episode for International Women's Day, Cat is joined by award-winning poet and writer Shelley Puhak, whose new book "The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World" tells this gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France.
Up Next in 🎧 Gone Medieval
-
🎧 The Origins of Kyiv
24th of February 2022 marked the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This episode of Gone Medieval looks at the origins of its capital city, Kyiv, and how today it has become central to this ongoing conflict. Host Matt Lewis is joined by Dr. Olenka Pevny from the University of Cambridge. T...
-
🎧 Discovering Bury St Edmunds
The historic cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk may well be familiar to listeners to Gone Medieval - perhaps from our episode 'Saint Edmuntd: England's Lost King' or the town’s mention during our hunt for the 'Viking Great Heathen Army' on Dan Snow's History Hit. In its heyday, Bury St ...
-
🎧1066: The Last Children of Anglo-Sax...
1066 is a year carved into the history of western Europe. It radically transformed the cultural, political and built landscape of England in a way that is hard to overstate - and yet its immediate aftermath is often forgotten. By Domesday, just 20 years later, around 94 percent of England's land ...
