Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern

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.

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

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Map of Medieval Northern Europe	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
The Royal Families of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden	p. 10
Three Nordic Queens	p. 13
Sound, Voice, and Vox: The Acoustics of the Self in the Middle Ages	p. 29
"You Danes Must Do as I Say...": Queen Agnes and the Regicide of 1286	p. 53
Voicing and Legacy: Queen Eufemia of Norway	p. 91
Margareta of Denmark and the Voice of Identity	p. 131
Afterword: The Queen's Two Voices	p. 173
Notes	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 235
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