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E.T. Dailey's Radegund is both meticulously researched and supremely readable, imbued with a rare, propulsive energy. Here, finally, is Radegund fully-realized-audacious and imperfect, pioneer and survivor. * Shelley Puhak, author of The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World * E.T. Dailey has produced a sparkling new biography of Radegund. He does so by a meticulous reading of the sources, and by reminding the reader of her cultural context, steeped as it was in the Bible. As a result, the royal saint appears freshly minted, as does her community of the Holy Cross, and those around her, even the leading members of the Merovingian family. * Ian Wood, Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds, FBA * This is a highly readable biography of Radegund's life and achievements as queen, consecrated woman and leader in Merovingian society. It not only will find a wide audience among early medievalists and those interested in the development both of queenship and of female monasticism, including students, but also serves as a text that will appeal to a broader readership, interested in a well-told tale of a woman who made her mark without, as Dailey reminds us, resorting to the violence that was so often a political tool of her contemporaries... His prose is lively, and even - a rarity in academic books - at times beautiful in its descriptions. * Social History *

E.T. Dailey's Radegund is both meticulously researched and supremely readable, imbued with a rare, propulsive energy. Here, finally, is Radegund fully-realized-audacious and imperfect, pioneer and survivor. * Shelley Puhak, author of The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World * E.T. Dailey has produced a sparkling new biography of Radegund. He does so by a meticulous reading of the sources, and by reminding the reader of her cultural context, steeped as it was in the Bible. As a result, the royal saint appears freshly minted, as does her community of the Holy Cross, and those around her, even the leading members of the Merovingian family. * Ian Wood, Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds, FBA *

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E. T. Dailey is Associate Professor of Late Antique & Early Medieval History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite, and editor of Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800-1400 (with Christian Raffensperger) and Monastic Space through Time (with Stephen Werronen).

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