BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Women's Impact, Inc. - ECPv6.16.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Women's Impact, Inc. X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.womensimpactinc.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Women's Impact, Inc. REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221114T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221114T203000 DTSTAMP:20221101T160429Z CREATED:20221101T160429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T160429Z UID:9938-1668450600-1668457800@www.womensimpactinc.com SUMMARY:Book Club DESCRIPTION:Book Club Meets\nMonday\, November 14 | 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nThe Dark Queens by Shelley Puhak\nMichelle Cordova hosts\nDianne Digianantonio facilitates\n\nRegister Here for Book Club \nThe remarkable\, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power\, only to be vilified for daring to rule. \nBrunhild was a Spanish princess\, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet—in the 6th-century Merovingian Empire\, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport—these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms for decades\, changing the face of Europe. \nThe two queens commanded armies and negotiated with kings and popes. They formed coalitions and broke them\, mothered children and lost them. They fought a years-long civil war—against each other. With ingenuity and skill\, they battled to stay alive in the game of statecraft\, and in the process laid the foundations of what would one day be Charlemagne’s empire. Yet after Brunhild and Fredegund’s deaths—one gentle\, the other horrific—their stories were rewritten\, their names consigned to slander and legend. \nIn The Dark Queens\, award-winning writer Shelley Puhak sets the record straight. She resurrects two very real women in all their complexity\, painting a richly detailed portrait of an unfamiliar time and striking at the roots of some of our culture’s stubbornest myths about female power. The Dark Queens offers proof that the relationships between women can transform the world. \nRegister Here for Nov. 14 Book Club URL:https://www.womensimpactinc.com/event/book-club-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Club END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR