Isabel Moreira

Bathild of Francia (eBook, ePUB)

Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the remarkable life of Balthild of Francia (c. 633-80), a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon slave who became a queen of France. Described in contemporary sources as beautiful and intelligent, she rose to power though her marriage to the short-lived King Clovis II. As regent for her young son, she promoted social and political reforms in Francia that included the rescue and rehousing of Christian slaves who, like Balthild herself, had been caught up in the human-trafficking practices of the mid-seventh century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197518687
• Artikelnr.: 72260698

Autorenporträt

Isabel Moreira is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World, and author of Heaven's Purge: Purgatory in Late Antiquity.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Map
Family Tree
Chapter One: Finding her Story
Chapter Two: Trafficked Slave
Chapter Three: Marriage Makes a Queen
Chapter Four: Regent, Reformer, and Rescuer of Slaves
Chapter Five: Life and Death at the Convent of Chelles
Chapter Six: Mother, Mutilator -- and Murderer?
Chapter Seven: Abolitionist Icon
Appendix: The Baldehildis Seal Matrix
Bibliography
Index