We’re pleasantly surprised to see Queen Margaret’s Dream as the Number 1 Bestseller in the History Category on Sweden’s largest online bookstore, Adlibris, during the last week of September.
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BOOK RELEASE: QUEEN MARGARET’S DREAM
New book out today!
The 14th century was a time of chaos. In the wake of climate change and the plague, political order had crumbled across Europe. The three kingdoms in the North were subjected to mounting pressures, both from external forces and internal strife.
Into this tumultuous world was born Margareta, the youngest daughter of Valdemar Atterdag. She would come to embody the unity of the North – raised in the Danish realm and married to the Norwegian king who had just lost his Swedish crown. As the regent for her son, she did everything in her power to pave his path to the three crowns, but fate had other plans. Soon, she found herself alone, without husband or children, with a dream that lived on through her alone: a united North.
Surrounded by adversaries – from the Hanseatic League to the emperor and King Albrekt – her prospects seemed bleak in her quest to achieve her goal. As history tells us, she eventually rode out of Kalmar on a July day in 1397 alongside her adoptive son, King Erik of the Union. How did she get there? In this story we witness how political maneuvering, kinship, personal determination, and chance allowed a person to realize her dream while simultaneously reshaping the history of the North.
Book Release: Kings. A World History, Now in Dutch
“In Kings Erik Petersson takes the reader on a journey through time, from the era of kings and empresses, sultans, shoguns, queens and tsars to today’s democratic society. “
“We meet a young, ambitious sultan in a medieval Constantinopel who, with the help of his blacksmith, put an end to the political order of his time. We encounter a sultana who ruled from her island in the Nile with a new form of loyalty, and we join Theudebert I, who ruled much of sixth-century Europe.”
“Through countless stories, we learn timeless lessons about leadership, the human psyche and the workings of power. Petersson describes what happens when power is in the hands of a single individual – a form of government with an atrocious reputation, but he also shows how those thousands of years of monopoly led to the greatest achievement of the twentieth century: our modern democracy.”
Release date 7th of December. You can pre-order your copy on amazon.nl here.
Book Release: Kings. A World History
THE MECHANISMS BEHIND AUTOCRATIC RULE: To understand the world of today, one needs to know the foundation it stood on only 100 years ago. Then autocratic rule, empires and monarchs were the normal state of affairs – and they leaned on a long history. What made one ruler prevail, while others fell? What place do Kings and Queens keep in our psyche? And what threads weave themselves through the history of Kings?
This is a book that puts empires, states, rulers and history itself in a new light.
The book Kings. A World history (Kungar. En världshistoria) is out today, April 24, 2020.
New Book: Prince of the North
Today my new book “Prince of the North” (in Swedish: “Furste av Norden: Kristian Tyrann”) is published. It is a biography on the last monarch of the Nordic Union, Kristian II (1481–1559), as well as a portrait of some unruly decades in the early 16th century that changed the North radically on the brink to the modern era.
