England in Europe : : English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, c.1000-c.1150 / / Elizabeth Muir Tyler.
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. Tyler offers a bold literary and historical analysis of both texts and r...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Translations and Referencing
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Genealogical Table
- 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
- Index