Struggle for Power in Medieval Europe

On the pages of this book, readers will meet the kings of the Visigoths, Burgundians, and Franks, Scandinavian kings, and Slavic princes, and learn about the peculiarities of the first dynastic conflicts in medieval Europe. About how authors of medieval chronicles and compilers of Icelandic sagas viewed the bloody civil wars. And, finally, about who among the victims of these wars entered the pantheon of martyr-kings and was canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint.