1st Edition
The Queens and Royal Women of Sweden, c. 970–1330 Their Lives, Power, and Legacy
By Caroline Wilhelmsson
Copyright 2025
264 Pages
2 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
264 Pages
2 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
264 Pages
2 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This is the first major piece of scholarship to provide an overview of the lives of Sweden’s earliest documented queens, together with some of their most influential female relatives, who lived between 970 and 1330.
Spanning a period over 350 years, approximately 40 biographies are included from the semi-legendary Viking queen Sigrid Storråda to Duchess Ingeborg of Norway, the first female de... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Semi-Historical Women: 970–1090 3. Christian Queenship, 1090–1250 4. Women as Independent Political Actors: 1210–1330 5. Conclusion
Biography
Caroline Wilhelmsson is a historian of state formation, urban history, and military architecture. She teaches Viking history at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and is a postdoctoral researcher at University College Cork, Ireland, where she investigates walled towns. She previously held a Bernadotte Fellowship at Uppsala University, Sweden.
