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

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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.


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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

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Elizabeth M. Tyler is a professor of medieval literature in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. She is a co-director of the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of York.


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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.

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