England in Europe - English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, C.1000-C.1150

In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor.

List of contents

Note on Translations
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1: Vernacular Foundations
2: Fictions of Family: The Encomium Emmae Reginae and Virgil’s Aeneid
3: Talking about History: The Encomium Emmae Reginae and the Court of Harthacnut
4: The Politics of Allusion in Eleventh-Century England: Classical Poets and the Vita Ædwardi
5: Reading Through the Conquest
6: The Women of 1066
7: Edith Becomes Matilda
Conclusion: Endings and Beginnings
Bibliography

About the author

By Elizabeth Muir Tyler

Summary

In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Tyler, Elizabeth Muir Tyler
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781442640726
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4072-6
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series; Toronto Anglo-Saxon; Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series; Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration