CONTENTS -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter One: Denmark during the reign of Valdemar IV Atterdag -- Chapter Two: The struggle for the crown of Denmark -- Chapter Three: Society, class and government -- Chapter Four: Pirates and commercial war against the Hanseatic League -- Chapter Five: The great herring market in Scania -- Chapter Six: The counts of Holstein and southern Jutland -- Chapter Seven: The fight for the crown of Sweden -- Chapter Eight: Catastrophe and reconstruction -- Chapter Nine: "Victory in the hands of a woman" -- Chapter Ten: The consolidation of power -- Chapter Eleven: Queen Margrete as legislator -- Chapter Twelve: The Nordic Union 1397 -- Chapter Thirteen: The struggle for Gotland and the final surrender of Stockholm -- Chapter Fourteen: State and Church -- Chapter Fifteen: Queen Margrete's religious gifts and donations -- Chapter Sixteen: Chancellor and bishop-the career of Peder Jensen Lodehat -- Chapter Seventeen: The struggle for Gotland and the mystery of the false King Oluf -- Chapter Eighteen: A royal wedding -- Chapter Nineteen: The queen's letter of 1405 -- Chapter Twenty: The Slesvig-Holstein problem -- Chapter Twenty-One: The death of Queen Margrete -- Chapter Twenty-Two: A royal game of chess -- Chapter Twenty-Three: Art, education and literature -- Chapter Twenty-Four: Everyday life in the country and the towns -- Chapter Twenty-Five: Assessments of Queen Margrete through the centuries -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.